Hoshea ben Elah, the Last King of Israel: Narrative and History in 2 Kings 17:1–6

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. The Last Days of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Introducing the Proceedings of a Multi-Disciplinary Conference 1
4. Part I: Setting the Scene
5. How to Encounter an Historical Problem? “722–720 BCE” as a Case Study 17
6. Part II: Approaching the Fall of Samaria from Contemporary Assyrian and Egyptian Sources
7. Contextualizing the Last Days of the Kingdom of Israel: What Can Assyrian Official Inscriptions Tell Us? 35
8. Samaria, Hamath, and Assyria’s Conquests in the Levant in the Late 720s BCE. The Testimony of Sargon II’s Inscriptions 55
9. Why Israel? Reflections on Shalmaneser V’s and Sargon II’s Grand Strategy for the Levant 87
10. The “Lost Tribes of Israel” in the Context of the Resettlement Programme of the Assyrian Empire 101
11. The End of the Kingdom of Israel: A View from the Nile Valley 125
12. Part III: Views from Archaeology
13. The Annals of Sargon II and the Archaeology of Samaria: Rhetorical Claims, Empirical Evidence 147
14. Megiddo and Jezreel Reflected in the Dying Embers of the Northern Kingdom of Israel 189
15. Part IV: Working with the Book of Kings: the Text
16. Between Two Differing Editions: Some Notable Text-Critical Variants in 2 Kings 17 211
17. The Fall of Samaria: an Analysis of the Biblical Sources 229
18. In Search of the Original Biblical Record of the Assyrian Conquest of Samaria 251
19. Part V: Working with the Book of Kings: the Chronological Framework
20. 2 Kings 15–18: a Chronological Conundrum? 267
21. The Last Days of Israel: Chronological Considerations 289
22. Part VI: Working with the Book of Kings: the Narrative
23. Wicked Usurpers and the Doom of Samaria. Further Views on the Angle of 2 Kings 15–17 303
24. Hoshea ben Elah, the Last King of Israel: Narrative and History in 2 Kings 17:1–6 335
25. Did Hoshea of Israel Continue the Foreign Policy of His Predecessors? 355
26. Part VII: Reflections in the Prophets
27. The Book of Hosea and the Last Days of the Northern Kingdom. The Methodological Problem 369
28. Isaiah and the Fall of the Kingdom of Israel 383
29. Indices
30. 1. General index 401
31. 2. Words 411
32. 3. Texts 413