King Josiah of Judah - The Lost Messiah of Israel

Zusatztext 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Marvin A. Sweeney
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2000
• EAN: 9780195133240
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513324-0
• No. of pages: 366
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Israel, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, RELIGION / Judaism / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Judaism / History, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, History of Religion, Judaism, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Bible readings, selections and meditations, Biography: historical, political and military, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Arab & Middle Eastern