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9780814651766

Ahab : The Construction of a King

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  • ISBN13:

    9780814651766

  • ISBN10:

    0814651763

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-10-30
  • Publisher: Michael Glazier
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Summary

"In this book Walsh sheds new, if not always more positive, light on Ahab, king of Israel during the ninth century BCE."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Jerome T. Walsh holds the Tschoepe Chair of Homiletics in the Insitute for Religious and Pastoral Studies at the University of Dallas.

Table of Contents

The Ahab of historyp. 1
The Ahab of narrativep. 11
First impressionsp. 13
Ahab in the Elijah stories : 1 Kings 17-19p. 24
Ahab in the Ahab stories : 1 Kings 20-22p. 33
Excursus on textual criticismp. 68
Conclusion : the Ahab of narrativep. 78
The construction of the kingp. 83
The oldest informationp. 85
Ahab and the prophetsp. 92
Excursus on Israelite religionp. 95
The Aramean warsp. 104
Conclusion : the construction of the kingp. 111
Conclusion : of methods and meaningsp. 115
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