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Author Hutton, Jeremy Michael.

Title The Transjordanian palimpsest : the overwritten texts of personal exile and transformation in the Deuteronomistic history / Jeremy M. Hutton.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 449 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Bd. 396
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 396.
Note Significantly Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 2005.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-419) and index.
Contents Echoes of the past and topos as text -- Exiles and textiles : Transjordan in history -- Vexed texts : sources of the Deuteronomistic history -- Royal apology and scribalism in iron age Israel -- Of success and succession -- The mystery of the history of David's rise -- The narrative(s) of Saul's rise -- Conclusion: A composite motif.
Summary This study analyzes several passages in the Former Prophets (2 Sam 19:12-44; 2 Kgs 2:1-18; Judg 8:4-28) from a literary perspective, and argues that the text presents Transjordan as liminal in Israel's history, a place from which Israel's leaders return with inaugurated or renewed authority. It then traces the redactional development of Samuel-Kings that led to this literary symbolism, and proposes a hypothesis of continual updating and combination of texts, beginning early in Israel's monarchy and continuing until the final formation of the Deuteronomistic History. Several source documents ma.
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Subject Bible. Historical Books -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Historical Books.
Bible. Old Testament -- Historiography.
Bible. Old Testament.
Historiography.
Bible. Historical Books -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Historiography.
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Historiography.
Bible. Historical Books.
Bible. Old Testament.
Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism)
Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism)
Jordan River.
Jordan -- History.
Jordan.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Academic theses.
Academic theses.
Other Form: Print version: Hutton, Jeremy Michael. Transjordanian palimpsest. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2009 9783110204100 311020410X (OCoLC)317925432
ISBN 9783110212761 (electronic book)
3110212765 (electronic book)
1282187597
9781282187597
311020410X
9783110204100
9783110204100
311020410X