King Josiah of Judah
The Lost Messiah of Israel
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:29th Mar '01
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Named as Outstanding Academic Book by Choice
Said to have lived from 640-609 BC, King Josiah of Judah is a figure of extraordinary importance for the history of Israel. Using synchronic and diachronic analyses of the Deuteronomistic History, Deuteronomy, and selected prophetic books, Marvin Sweeney reconstructs the ideological perspectives of King Josiah's program of religious and national restoration.Said to have lived from 640-609 BC, King Josiah of Judah is a figure of extraordinary importance for the history of Israel. Using synchronic and diachronic analyses of the Deuteronomistic History, Deuteronomy, and selected prophetic books, Marvin Sweeney reconstructs the ideological perspectives of King Josiah's program of religious and national restoration.
Provides a wide-ranging re-assessment of King Josiah ... a fine piece of scholarship which offers a reasoned and well-argued case for recognizing the extent to which the preservation and editorial shaping of several major literary texts of the Hebrew Bible require to be understood against the ideological background of the twilight years of the First Israelite Kingdom * Journal of Theological Studies *
- Winner of Named as Outstanding Academic Book by Choice.
ISBN: 9780195133240
Dimensions: 158mm x 242mm x 28mm
Weight: 703g
368 pages