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The Early Monarchy in Israel: The Tenth Century B.C.E. (Biblical Encyclopedia)

By Walter Dietrich

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
1589832639, 9781589832633, 9781435627031, 9004157352, 9789004157354, 9789047423201
LCC
DS121.55 .D5213 2007b
Open Library ID
OL12367047M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2273982 bytes)
Pages
396\397
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Hebrew narrative art achieves its highest level in the stories of Saul, David, and Solomon. But beyond that, the description of these all-too-human characters and the dramatic events of the birth of the Israelite state depicts a change of eras that became determinative for half a millennium of Israelite history. In this volume Dietrich introduces readers to the stories of the early Israelite state from a variety of perspectives: literary-critical, historical, and theological. After tracing how biblical and extrabiblical texts describe the period, Dietrich skillfully untangles the knotty questions related to the history of the period and perceptively examines the development of this literary corpus as well as the other biblical material that came to be associated with it. In a concluding chapter Dietrich revisits the stories of Saul, David, and Solomon to explore what they teach about theological issues of enduring significance, what they teach about God, humanity, the state, the use of force, and the relationship between women and men.

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