1 Kings 16–2 Kings 16
1 Kings 16–2 Kings 16
Technical
Critical

1 Kings 16–2 Kings 16

in International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament

by Steven L. McKenzie

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Pages 566
Publisher Kohlhammer
Published 2018
ISBN-13 978-3-17-034040-4
This volume makes use of diverse methods and approaches to offer fresh treatments of 1 Kings 16—2 Kings 16 both synchronically and diachronically. Among its major contributions are a detailed text-critical analysis that frequently adopts readings of the Old Greek and Old Latin and, at the same time, a reexamination of the variant chronologies for the kings of Israel and Judah that argues for the priority of the one in the Masoretic Text. The book presents a new theory of the compositional history of these chapters that ascribes them mostly to the hand of a postexilic "Prophetic Narrator" who reworked older legenda, especially about Elisha, and effectively shaped Kings into the work we have today.

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