By Iain W. Provan
ISBN-10: 3110115573
ISBN-13: 9783110115574
In ihe previous couple of many years, the research of Deuteronomy and the previous Prophets has been extra arguable in rhetoric than actually. Martin Noth's imaginative and prescient of a unified exilic historical past, a Deuteronomistic background (DtrH). is still a centerpiece of all mainstream theories. From this foundation, fresh scholarship starts off, discerning previous variations, histories of redaction, and so on.
Noth’s concept was once that an exilic historian had composed DtrH complete (using diversified, past written sources). Additions, in general minor, then accumulated in transmission. at the present time there are basically 4 colleges of concept at the subject. a few students (as J. Van Seters and H. D. Hoffmann) adhere to the thesis of a unmarried (exilic) variation with additions yet now not reeditions (they additionally are likely to deny that the historian, right here H[Dtr], was once constrained by means of written sources). Continental students, for the main half, stick with Rudolf Smend in setting apart versions (Prophetic. Nomistic) of—rather than scribal additions to—Noth's unified unique (e.g., W. Dietrich, T. Veijola, T. D. M. Mettinger).
Most Albrightians (such as R. G. Boling, R. E. Friedman, R. D. Nelson, and others, together with A. D. H. Mayes and A. G. Auld) keep on with Frank Moore pass. pass resuscitated a nineteenth-century speculation historical past written to maintain Josiah's reforms used to be up-to-date by way of an exilic editor (here, E[Dtr]x). in most cases, passages assigned to the "Nomistic" redactor by means of Smend’s fans coincide with these attributed via move to E(Dtr)x. The fourth tuition of suggestion begun from a piece of writing (since multiplied in different reviews) by means of Helga Weippert, those students (A. Lemaire, A. F. Campbell, this reviewer) figure at the back of the Josianic historian (H[Dtr]jos) an Hezekian variation of the background. back, there's no severe clash with Cross's view.
Since 1983 J. B. Peckham has argued, in a booklet and a number of other articles, that formal features—such as sequences of verbal forms—indicate purely versions of DtrH, particularly, the Hezekian and the exilic (the latter is inescapable, because the final occasions pronounced date to 561-560 B.C.E.). Provan makes an attempt an development in this least expensive process. He defends the thesis that the "Hezekian" background coated the interval from the United Monarchy down via Hezekiah, yet he dates this historical past to Josiah's interval.
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From Jeroboam's sin, the emphasis being placed on Jeroboam, and not on the individual king concerned. R n , on the other hand, does not employ η » κ1? at all when making an accusation, but the more positive y v n "]"xr with κοπ or ¡TO. He thus places the blame directly on the king concerned. 3/ R r 's interest with regard to the cult is that of centralization, the abolition of worship at the high places. The use of nrr T m -firn aaa in relation to kings who tolerated the men suggests that these are to be understood in terms of an illegitimate form of Yahweh-worship.
Begrich (Die Chronologie der Könige von Israel und Juda und die Quellen des Rahmens der Königsbücher (BHT 3; Tübingen, 1929) ) and Jepsen (Quellen, 30-40) thought that a synchronistic history lay behind the present Kings. Noth (Studien, 72-87) found the sources to be unofficial adaptations of the history of the kings, diaries based on the official annals. 2 H. Weippert's View of the Judgement Formulae Weippert's article1 is presented as a response to Jenni's suggestion4 that the question of the unity of the DH may be helped towards a resolution by the analysis of its style and language.
Stoebe, TLZ 99 (1974) 181-183, and F. Langlamet, RB 81 (1974) 601-606, and the comments of Mayes, Story, 116-120. The Current Debate: A Critique 25 there. Given that we are dealing with different types of material, historical and prophetic, some variation of the type noted by Dietrich is to be expected in any case, and it is therefore doubtful whether his explanation of such minor differences as exist in terms of different redactors can really be sustained. Indeed, the similarity between the language of DtrG and Red Ρ is itself appealed to in chap.
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