The Books of Kings; Sources, Composition, Historiography and Reception

Halpern, Baruch & Andrà Lemaire & Matthew J. Adams

ISBN 10: 9004177299 / ISBN 13: 9789004177291

Published by Brill, 2010

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Letters and number in pen on front free endpaper, otherwise text clean and tight; no dust jacket; Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 129; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 728 pages Very Good+ No dust jacket as issued.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Books of Kings; Sources, Composition, Historiography and Reception
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004177299
• ISBN 13: 9789004177291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued

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Synopsis

This collaborative commentary on, or dictionary of, Kings, explores cross-cutting aspects of Kings ranging from the analysis of its composition, historically regarded, to its transmission and reception. Ample attention is accorded sources, figures and peoples who play a part in the book. The commentary deals with Kings’ treatment in translation and role in later ancient literature. While our comments do not proceed verse by verse, the volume furnishes guidance, from contributors highly qualified to advance contemporary discussion, on the book's historical background, its literary intentions and characteristics, and on themes and motifs central to its understanding, both of itself and of the world from which it arose. This volume functions as a meta-commentary, offering windows into the secondary literature, but assembling data more fully than is the case in individual commentaries.

About the Author

Baruch Halpern, Ph.D. (1978) in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University, holds the Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies, and is Professor of Ancient History, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Religious Studies, and Fellow of the Institute of Arts and Humanities, at Pennsylvania State University.

André Lemaire, Ph.D. (1973) in Oriental Studies, University of Paris III is correspondent of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres (Paris) and Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic Philology and Epigraphy at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris). He has published extensively on Bible and West Semitic Epigraphy including NAISSANCE DU MONOTHÉISME. Point de vue d'un historien (Paris, Bayard, 2003) = THE BIRTH OF MONOTHEISM (Washington, Biblical Archaeology Society, 2007).