King Josiah of Judah is a figure of extraordinary importance for the history of Israel. Using synchronic and diachronic analyses of the Deuteronomistic History, Deuteronomy, and selected prophetic books, Marvin Sweeney reconstructs the ideological perspectives of King Josiah's program of religious and national restoration.
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"[Sweeney] is not afraid to challenge long-held scholarly consensus and to chart new paths when he feels the text warrants it. Future discussions of Josiah's vision and reforming efforts will certainly need to grapple with this study."-- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
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Marvin A. Sweeney is at Claremont School of Theology.
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The Deuteronomistic History (DtrH) plays an important role in the biblical presentation of King Josiah of Judah. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
regnal evaluation, speech report form, regnal resume, apodictic instruction, exilic edition, casuistic instruction, cultic centralization, cultic apostasy, postexilic redaction, righteous monarch, regnal formulae, former northern kingdom, prophetic legitimation, amar yhwh, textual block, northern monarchs, ideal monarch, concluding evaluation, cultic installations, enemy from the north, unspecified audience, legal instruction, redactional history, speech formula, eternal dynasty Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Deuteronomic Torah, Succession Narrative, Old Testament, Bath Sheba, Covenant Code, Isaiah ben Amoz, New York, Jeroboam ben Joash, Jeroboam ben Nebat, Merodach Baladan, Torah of Moses, G-d of Israel, Walter de Gruyter, Near East, Double Redaction, Sheffield Academic Press, Van Seters, Westminster John Knox, Grand Rapids, Hebrew Bible, Jordan River, Scholars Press, Levitical Torah, Mosaic Torah, The Editions New!
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The Deuteronomistic History (DtrH) plays an important role in the biblical presentation of King Josiah of Judah. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
regnal evaluation, speech report form, regnal resume, apodictic instruction, exilic edition, casuistic instruction, cultic centralization, cultic apostasy, postexilic redaction, righteous monarch, regnal formulae, former northern kingdom, prophetic legitimation, amar yhwh, textual block, northern monarchs, ideal monarch, concluding evaluation, cultic installations, enemy from the north, unspecified audience, legal instruction, redactional history, speech formula, eternal dynasty Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Deuteronomic Torah, Succession Narrative, Old Testament, Bath Sheba, Covenant Code, Isaiah ben Amoz, New York, Jeroboam ben Joash, Jeroboam ben Nebat, Merodach Baladan, Torah of Moses, G-d of Israel, Walter de Gruyter, Near East, Double Redaction, Sheffield Academic Press, Van Seters, Westminster John Knox, Grand Rapids, Hebrew Bible, Jordan River, Scholars Press, Levitical Torah, Mosaic Torah, The Editions New!
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- Israelite & Judean History by John Haralson Hayes on 10 pages
- Deuteronomistic History by Martin Noth on 9 pages
- The Old Testament: An Introduction by Otto Eissfeldt on 8 pages
- The history of Israel by Martin Noth on 7 pages
- The Prophetic Literature (Interpreting Biblical Texts) by Marvin A Sweeney on 6 pages
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- Thematic Threads in the Book of the Twelve (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft) by Paul L. Redditt in Front Matter, page 172, and Back Matter
- The Blackwell Companion to Judaism (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion) by Jacob Neusner in Front Matter, and page 35
- The Turn Of The Cycle: 1 Samuel 1-8 In Synchronic And Diachronic Perspectives (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft) by Serge Frolov on page 185, and Back Matter
- King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice: Biblical Distortions of Historical Realities (Beiheft zur Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft) ... Fur Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft) by Francesca Stavrakopoulou on page 25, and Back Matter
- David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition by Israel Finkelstein in Back Matter
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