TY - BOOK ID - 7224633 TI - Portrait of the kings : the Davidic prototype in Deuteronomistic poetics PY - 2015 SN - 9781451465662 1451465661 9781451469585 PB - Minneapolis Fortress Press DB - UniCat KW - Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism) KW - Kings and rulers KW - Deuteronomic history (Biblical criticism) KW - Deuteronomists (Biblical criticism) KW - DH (Biblical criticism) KW - D document (Biblical criticism) KW - Biblical teaching. KW - Bible. KW - Kings (Books of the Old Testament) KW - Koenige (Books of the Old Testament) KW - Könige (Books of the Old Testament) KW - Königsbücher (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Koningen (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Melakhim (Books of the Old Testament) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - 222.6 KW - 222.6 Livres de Samuel. Les Rois. David. Salomon. Elia. Elisa. Josias KW - 222.6 Samuelboeken. Boeken der koningen. David. Salomon. Elia. Elisa. Josias KW - Livres de Samuel. Les Rois. David. Salomon. Elia. Elisa. Josias KW - Samuelboeken. Boeken der koningen. David. Salomon. Elia. Elisa. Josias KW - Biblical teaching UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7224633 AB - Much of the scholarship on the book of Kings has focused on questions of the historicity of the events described. Alison L. Joseph turns her attention instead to the literary characterization of Israel's kings. By examining the narrative techniques used in the Deuteronomistic History to portray Israel's kings, Joseph shows that the Deuteronomist in the days of the Josianic Reform constructed David as a model of adherence to the covenant, and Jeroboam, conversely, as the ideal opposite of David. The redactor further characterized other kings along one or the other of these two models. The resulting narrative functions didactically, as if instructing kings and the people of Judah regarding the consequences of disobedience. Attention to characterization through prototype also allows Joseph to identify differences between pre-exilic and exilic redactions in the Deuteronomistic History, bolstering and also revising the view advanced by Frank Moore Cross. The result is a deepened understanding of the worldview and theology of the Deuteronomistic historians. ER -