TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auld,A.Graeme
TI  - Life in Kings: reshaping the royal story in the Hebrew Bible 
T2  - Ancient Israel and its literature
SN  - 9780884142126
AV  - BS1335.52 .A95 2017
U1  - 222/.506 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Atlanta
PB  - Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Kings
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and indexes; The story so far -- Life -- More words -- God-King communication in Jerusalem -- Cultic matters : the synoptic tradition -- Toward the synoptic narrative -- Samuel revisited -- Prophets and kings in Israel -- Rewriting Judah's kings -- Isaiah and Hezekiah -- Reading written Kings -- Shared text sampled
N2  - "Building on a lifetime of research and writing, A. Graeme Auld examines passages in Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, and Isaiah that recount the same stories or contain similar vocabulary. He advances his argument that Samuel and Kings were organic developments from a deftly crafted, prophetically interpreted, shared narrative he calls the Book of Two Houses--a work focused on the house of David and the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem. At the end of the study he reconstructs the synoptic material within Kings in Hebrew with an English translation"--
ER  -