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Israel in the Book of Kings

The Past as a Project of Social Identity

  • Hardback
  • 338 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm

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For scholars and students of Biblical history

Challenges outdated views on Israel's monarchies

You will gain deeper insights into Jewish identity

This book offers a fresh analysis of the Book of Kings, exploring Jewish identity in the Diaspora.

Linville argues that a new approach to the book of Kings is needed because of the failings of the usual historical-critical methods. He adopts a holistic approach which sees the book as a Persian-era text intended to articulate politically and religiously significant symbols within the book's monarchic history. These express the producer's reactions to important issues of Jewish identity in the continuing Diaspora and in Jerusalem. In the story of the schisms and apostacies of Israel's defunct monarchies both the Diaspora and cultural pluralism are legitimized. Rival versions of Israelite heritage are reconciled under an overarching sense of a greater Israelite history and identity.

  • Title

    Israel in the Book of Kings

  • Author

    James Richard Linville

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    May 1998

  • Weight

    582g

  • Page Count

    338

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781850758594

  • ISBN-10

    185075859X

  • Eden Code

    1181794

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