1 Kings 16-2 Kings 16 (International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament | IECOT)

by Steven L. McKenzie

Publisher:

Kohlhammer

, 2019

Overview

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.

Key Features

• Makes use of diverse methods and approaches to offer fresh treatments of 1 and 2 Kings
• Presents a new theory of the compositional history of these chapters that ascribes them mostly to the hand of a postexilic “Prophetic Narrator”
• Provides 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

Product Details

• Title: 1 Kings 16–2 Kings 16
• Author: Steven L. McKenzie
• Edition: 1. Edition
• Series: International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament
• Publisher: Kohlhammer
• Print Publication Date: 2019
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 564
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. O.T. 1 Kings 16-22 › Commentaries; Bible. O.T. 2 Kings 1-16 › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9783170340404, 9783170340411, 9783170340428, 9783170340435, 3170340409, 3170340417, 3170340425, 3170340433
• Resource ID: LLS:IECOT11KI1
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-30T23:31:17Z

About Steven L. McKenzie

Steven L. McKenzie is professor of religious studies and the Spence L. Wilson Senior Research Fellow at Rhodes College.