Soundings in Kings: Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship

by Klaus-Peter Adam

The reigning assumptions in 1970s and 1980s scholarship on 1 and 2 Kings, and indeed on all of the Deuteronomistic history, have come under serious question. How can differing views of that history be reconciled? What sources were available to the authors? Should we call them "authors"? How well do the Books of Kings fit into the larger history of which they are a part; just who composed that history, toward what end, and in what context? How do...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800697162
• ISBN13: 9780800697167
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"