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The Jehu Revolution - A Royal Tradition of the Northern Kingdom and Its Ramifications
of: Jonathan Miles Robker
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG, 2012
ISBN: 9783110285017 , 353 Pages
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The Jehu Revolution - A Royal Tradition of the Northern Kingdom and Its Ramifications
Acknowledgments
5
Chapter 1: Introduction: Objectives and Methodology
11
The Problem
11
Objectives
12
Methodology
16
Excursus: The Greek Text of Kings
18
Chapter 2: The Literary Jehu: A Construct and its Ramifications
27
The Oldest Biblical Jehu Tradition: 2 Kings 9-10
27
Literary Criticism
45
Analysis of Style
68
Date of Composition
72
Form and Sitz im Leben
75
Chapter 3: The Jehuide Dynasty
80
Excursus: A Judean Redaction or a Judean Source?
91
2 Kings 13:1-9
93
Translation and Textual Considerations
93
Narrative Considerations
94
2 Kings 13:10-14:22
96
Translation and Textual Considerations
96
Narrative Considerations
100
1 Kings 20:1-34
109
Translation and Textual Considerations
109
Narrative Considerations
115
2 Kings 14:23-29
120
Translation and Textual Considerations
120
Narrative Considerations
121
Chapter 4: The Israel Source in the Book of Kings: From Jeroboam II through Joram
127
David and Solomon: 1 Kings 1:1-11:25
127
Jeroboam I: 1 Kings 11:26-14:20
128
Translation and Textual Considerations
129
Narrative Considerations
133
Nadab through Joram: 1 Kings 15:25-16:34 + 22; 2 Kings 1
140
Translation and Textual Considerations
140
Narrative Considerations
148
The Plausibility of a Political Source in the Time of Jeroboam I
167
Concluding Remarks
174
Chapter 5: Historicity and the Bible: Evaluating the Biblical Materials for Reconstructing Israel's History
176
Introduction
176
The Israel Source
176
Other Material in Kings
181
Hosea
184
Amos
191
Chronicles
198
Josephus
203
Concluding Remarks and Evaluations
205
Chapter 6: Akkadian Sources
207
Shalmaneser III
207
The Campaign of 853
211
The Campaign of 849
220
The Campaign of 848
221
The Campaign of 845
223
The Campaign of 841
225
The Campaign of 838
233
Summary of Shalmaneser III
235
Adad-na¯ra¯ri¯ III and Shalmaneser IV
235
The Assyrian Texts
239
Chapter 7: Levantine Epigraphy: Tel Dan, Mesha, Zakkur, Samarian Materials
242
Textual Sources in Syria and Palestine
242
The Mesha Inscription
242
General Matters and Dating
242
Translation
243
Historical Considerations and Reconstruction
246
The Tel Dan Inscription
250
General Matters and Dating
250
Reconstruction and Translation
256
Historical Considerations and Reconstruction
275
The Zakkur Inscription
285
General Matters and Dating
285
Translation
285
Historical Considerations and Reconstruction
287
Samarian Stele Fragments
288
The Samaria Ostraca
289
General Information and Dating
289
Contents
290
Historical Considerations
292
Conclusions
293
Chapter 8: Conclusions
295
Historical Reconstruction
295
Impulses for Further Study
311
Appendix: The Israel Source
313
Bibliography
325
Index of Biblical Citations
343
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