By A. Graeme Auld

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Building on a life of learn and writing, A. Graeme Auld examines passages in Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, and Isaiah that recount an identical tales or comprise comparable vocabulary. He advances his argument that Samuel and Kings have been natural advancements from a deftly crafted, prophetically interpreted, shared narrative he calls the publication of 2 Houses—a paintings enthusiastic about the home of David and the home of Yahweh in Jerusalem. on the finish of the examine he reconstructs the synoptic fabric inside Kings in Hebrew with an English translation.

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  • aAcritique of the dominant method of the narrative books within the Hebrew Bible
  • A stable problem to the generally authorised courting among Deuteronomy, cultic centralization, and King Josiah’s reform
  • Key facts within the heated modern debate over the historic improvement of Biblical Hebrew

A. Graeme Auld is Professor emeritus of Hebrew Bible at Edinburgh college. He taught Hebrew Bible there from 1972 to 2007. His books, comprise Joshua, Moses and the Land (1980), Amos (1986), Kings with no Privilege (1994), and I & II Samuel: A Commentary (2011).

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