Follow the Words: What’s in a King’s Name?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Place of First Publication vii
4. Preview ix
5. Samuel-Kings and Chronicles: Two Understandings of Israel’s Past 1
6. Kings, Prophets, and Judges 5
7. Tell נא How It Is. Placing הגד־נא within Biblical Hebrew 21
8. נפש אדם and the Associations of 1 Chronicles 5 in the Hebrew Bible 35
9. Did the Assyrian Envoy Know the Venite? What Did He Know? What Did He Say? And Should He Be Believed? 51
10. Chronicles – Isaiah – Kings 63
11. ‘Divination’ in Hebrew and Greek Bibles: A Text-historical Overview 75
12. Deuteronomy and the Older Royal Narrative: Some Core Questions 89
13. Some Thoughts on the First Jeroboam 109
14. Ahaz and Jeroboam 117
15. David and His Alter Ego in the Desert 131
16. Of Proust and Prophets: Samuel, Elijah, and Charles Swann 143
17. Tracing the Writing of Kings with Nadav Na’aman and Klaus-Peter Adam 149
18. Reading Solomon with Three Eyes Open 169
19. Follow the Words: What’s in a King’s Name? 183
20. Comparing Amaziah and Jehoash 193
21. Ruth: A Reading of Scripture? 203
22. The Words in Context: A Hall of Mirrors 217
23. An Interim Balance 257
24. Bibliography 263
25. Index of Names 269
26. Index of Biblical passages 275
27. Index of Hebrew words 293
28. Index of Authors 301