Thomas Romer begins by examining the content of the so-called 'Deuteromistic History' and then asks what the term really means. He then goes on to provide a sociological, historical and literary approach to the books from Deuteronomy to Kings. Romer examines questions such as: Why and how did Deuteronomism rise as a 'school' under Assyrian hegemony? What role did propaganda play in the composition of these books? What happened on an ideological and sociological level during the Exile and Persian Period? Is the so-called Deuteronomistic literature properly understood as crisis literature? And what influence did the Deuteronomistic History have on the identity of the Second Temple period.
- ISBN10 0567040224
- ISBN13 9780567040220
- Publish Date 17 February 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 September 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint T.& T.Clark Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English