Preface |
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Abbreviations |
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: CREATING THE CASE |
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1. Preliminary Remarks on Contextual Problems Regarding the Zion Metaphor |
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2. Biblical Chronology and Historical Reconstruction |
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3. The Value of Form and Redaction Criticism |
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4. Concluding Remarks Regarding Form and Redaction Criticism |
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5. Outline of the Investigation |
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Chapter 2 THE HEZEKIAH NARRATIVE AND THE COMPOSITION OF THE DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY |
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1. 2 Kings 17-20: A Survey |
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2. What Happened to Jerusalem and Hezekiah? |
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3. Biblical Narrative and Historical Reality: Some Remarks |
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4. Motifs and Themes in the Hezekiah Narrative's Zion Ideology |
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5. Hezekiah and the Function of the Judgment Formulae in the Books of Kings |
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6. Jeroboam's Sin: The High Places and the Temples |
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7. The High Places, and the Habits of the Foreigners |
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8. Hezekiah as Moses' Successor? The Nehustan Motif |
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9. Josiah's Acts as a Variant Tradition? How Do We Fit this Narrative into the Ideology of the Books of Kings? |
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10. Patronage and Idolatry, or How to Characterize 'the Way of David' ? |
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Chapter 3 THE BOOK OF ISAIAH'S AHAZ AND HEZEKIAH NARRATIVES AS FOUNDATION MYTHS |
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1. Preliminary Remarks on the Composition of the Book of Isaiah |
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2. The Provenance of the Hezekiah Narrative: The Form- and Redaction-Critical Discussion |
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3. The Linguistic Evidence for an Isaianic Provenance |
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a. Isaiah's Pronouncement of Exile and its Fulfilment in 2 Kings 24-25 |
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b. The Hezekiah Sickness Narrative |
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d. Conclusions about the Linguistic Evidence |
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4. The Function of the Hezekiah Narrative within the Book of Isaiah: Ahaz and Hezekiah: Competing Characters? |
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6. The Sign Motif, or Will they Stand the Water Test? |
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7. Isaiah's Preaching in the Light of Assyrian Royal Ideology |
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8. Isaiah 37.3-4: Yahweh's Day of Wrath-The Birth Motif |
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9. Excursus: Yahweh Zebaoth |
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10. Isaiah 37.3-4: The Day of Distress |
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11. Isaiah 37.3-4: Children Have Come to the Cervical Opening and there is No Strength to Deliver Them |
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Chapter 4 DEUTERONOMIST VS. YAHWIST: AGREEMENT AND CONFLICT IN JEWISH AND SAMARITAN TEXT TRADITIONS |
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1. Tradition History According to Van Seters: Some Considerations |
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2. Deuteronomist and Yahwist: Jewish and Samaritan Traditions of Text Composition-The Pre-Exilic Period |
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a. Introduction to Samaritan Chronicles |
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b. Samaritan 'Variants' to the Deuteronomistic History |
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3. Shiloh between Shechem and Jerusalem? |
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4. Samaritan-Jewish Discussions over Cult Place and Tradition-The Post-Exilic Period |
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a. Samaritan Temple: Fiction or Fact? |
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Chapter 5 PROPHETIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE STATUS AND THE FUNCTION OPINE LAW: DAVID AND MOSES IN COMPETITION |
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1. From Priesthood to Kingship |
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2. David and Moses: Prophet vs. Prophet? |
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3. Law and Prophecy: Davidic Institutions vs. Mosaic Law |
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a. Kingship vs. Priestly Leadership |
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b. Jerusalem as the Chosen Place |
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c. No Prophet Arose Again Like Moses' |
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4. 'Look, I have Created Something New' |
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Chapter 6 MOUNTAIN VS. MOUNTAIN: THE PLACE YAHWEH HAS CHOSEN |
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1. Mt Zion as the Mountain of the House of Yahweh |
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2. Zion and David Traditions in Extra-Biblical Literature |
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a. Baruch, Sirach, Judith and Jubilees |
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b. Eupolemus, Pseudo-Eupolemus, 1 Enoch and Tobit |
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c. 1 Maccabees as Apologia? |
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3. 1 Maccabees: The Introduction |
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4. 1 Maccabees: Jerusalem-Zion vs. Antioch: Fighting the Seven-Headed Monster |
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5. 1 Maccabees: Utopia's Realization? |
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6. 2 Maccabees: Divine Election of Jerusalem as Yahweh's Abode and Judas as a Worthy Theocratic Leader |
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Chapter 7 CONCLUSION: THE PLACE YAHWEH HAS CHOSEN |
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Bibliography |
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Index of References |
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Index of Authors |
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