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Lately, such a lot educational stories of the books of Kings have targeting how they have been written. such a lot students examine the best way the nature of Solomon is depicted in I Kings 1-11. a few see Solomon as being portrayed favourably at the beginning yet negatively by means of the tip of the outlet component to Kings. in response to such an realizing of Solomon, those students argue for the Josianic redaction conception which states that Kings used to be written within the reign of King Josiah (640-609 BC). Others, believing that the writer mostly disapproves of Solomon, argue that Kings was once the paintings of a unmarried writer on the time of the Exile (587-539 BC). by contrast heritage, the most obstacle of this learn is to set up how Solomon relatively is characterized. The booklet argues the necessity for a suitable technique to judge Solomon effectively, and proposes rhetorical feedback. utilising this to the Solomon tale, the research breaks new floor in taking a look at how the narrative was once meant to cajole. From an research of the way persuasion is utilized in numerous features of the textual content - unit, association and magnificence, argument, scenario - the ebook concludes that Solomon isn't evaluated simplistically in Kings yet quite that his personality is defined in quite a few assorted and ambivalent methods.

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However, some questions still remain, such as how we can be sure that the two contrasting historical perspectives made sense to the exilic reader in the final form of the text. This theory will be evaluated later in a detailed analysis. 58 38 Knoppers 1994:254. 4 The triple and multiple redaction theories Whereas the Josianic redaction theory presupposes an extension at the end of the Josianic main body of DtrH in light of the exile, the triple redaction theory postulates one or more exilic extension(s) to DtrH.

Hobbs has observed the pattern from following kings; Jehu, Jehoash, Hezekiah and Josiah. Hobbs 1985:xxviii. 91 According to Sternberg, the author’s view in the text should be observed in a closer partnership between source and discourse. Without considering the historical aspect of the text, the newer literary approach may run the risk of resolving the tensions in an ancient text by a modern reader’s literary competence. 2 Deut-Kings as a series of discrete literary units Against Noth’s DtrH hypothesis, Westermann92 has presented another argument.

2) The question of the relationship between the accounts of Solomon and Josiah (1 Kgs 1–11; 2 Kgs 22–23). Hoffmann, Knoppers and Sweeney have shown a close relationship between Solomon and Josiah in the theme of cult and kingdom. Does the relationship (1 Kgs 11:1–13; 2 Kgs 23:13) show the artificial scheme of cult reform of an exilic author, to present the great reform of Josiah as the making of a new beginning after the exile (Hoffmann)? Or, in a close relationship between cult and kingdom, is the Solomon account (1 Kgs 1–11) the paradigmatic work of a Josianic redactor, to support the religious and political reform of Josiah (Knoppers, Sweeney)?

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