This book analyzes the book of Kings on the basis of Noth's compositional model for the Deuteronomistic History, while also taking account of recent literary critical treatments of Kings. Consistent with Noth's theory, McKenzie sees Kings and the DH as originally being the work of a single author/editor that has received numerous later additions, some of them quite extensive. He dates Dtr, with Cross, to the reign of Josiah, seeing the final two and one-half chapters of Kings as an addition. But he believes that tensions among the additions to Kings show they are not the result of systematic editing (e.g., Dtr2).
- ISBN10 9004094024
- ISBN13 9789004094024
- Publish Date 2 April 1991
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 October 2008
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Brill
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 188
- Language English
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