By Christopher R. Seitz
ISBN-10: 311011223X
ISBN-13: 9783110112238
This paintings, the revision of a dissertation provided at Yale in 1986, is a social-historical learn of the dominion of Judah from the perspective of factions and conflicts inside that society. Seitz surveys proof for social clash from Hezekiah’s time, with a meticulous difficulty for such clash after the loss of life of Josiah and till the autumn of Jerusalem in 587. As his subtitle exhibits, he is taking specific care to find conflicting perspectives within the literary layers of the booklet of Jeremiah. during this pursuit Seitz is operating an identical course as Abraham Malamat has labored (“The Twilight of Judah within the Egyptian-Babylonian Maelstrom," VTSup 28 [1974] 123-45).
In common his conclusions are cogent ones. He identifies the “people of the land” as (the leaders of) the inhabitants inside of Jerusalem who were refugees — from the north in 721, and from outlying parts of Judah in the course of the Assyrian profession in 701. It used to be this workforce that positioned Josiah at the throne in 640 (where during this strategy, Seitz wonders, have been Josiah’s uncles and brothers?—p. 40), and it was once from this staff that the booklet of Deuteronomy got here (pp. 69-70). while Josiah used to be killed at Megiddo, he have been attempting to oppose Egyptian hegemony (pp. 78-79). The “people of the land,” trying to proceed an anti-Egyptian coverage and ignoring primogeniture, then placed Jehoahaz at the throne (p. 81). The Egyptians spoke back via removal Jehoahaz from the throne and taking him into custody, changing him with Jehoiakim, an older brother, as a vassal. a majority of these irregularities within the succession of kings element to tensions in the society (p. 88). After the conflict of Carchemish in 605, as we all know, Jehoiakim replaced his allegiance and have become a vassal to Babylon (Seitz assumes in 603, p. ninety five) after which, after Babylonian reversals within the Egyptian delta, he broke with Babylon (Seitz assumes in six hundred, p. 96). Seitz proposes that the silence over the conditions of Jehoiakim’s demise (2 Kgs 24:6) used to be planned, rather given the contrasting judgments among Ezekiel and Jeremiah over the road of continuity within the Davidic dynasty (p. 119).
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4b. This may lead to retaliation from internal forces who resent nonJerusalemite rule (Jehoash; Amon; taxation of the "people of the land": under Jehoiakim, an Egyptian puppet). The Exilic Period 27 5. External powers (Babylon and Egypt) may exploit internal tensions by installing a king whose origins are non-Jerusalemite: (a) Jehoahaz, who garners strong support from the "people of the land", is imprisoned and deported by the Egyptians; (b) he is replaced by Eliakim (whose name is changed to Jehoiakim) whose Queen Mother is from Rumah (Egyptian-controlled territory) and who levies a tax against the "land" and the "people of the land"; (c) after the deportation of Jehoiachin (Jehoiakim dies), the Babylonians install his uncle Mattaniah (brother of Jehoiakim, name changed to Zedekiah) from Libnah, probably Babylonian territory.
Spalinger succeeds in making understandable the rapprochment that occurs between these two at a later period, when both are allied against the Neo-Babylonians (Carchemish, 609 B. , and earlier [Wiseman, 19]). But this rapprochment is preceded by a period during which Egypt rapidly expands into Palestine, under the leadership of the same Psammetichus, probably as early as the 630's. It would be wrong to see this as "anti-Assyrian" activity in the strict sense, since "Assyrian influence had diminished to such a degree by 628 B.
A complete treatment of this subject stands outside the scope of this study. What is important to note in considering the resurgence of Judah under Josiah's leadership, however, is that hopes for expansion occurred within the context of a rapidly disintegrating Assyrain empire. ' 9 However important Josiah's reform was in the final analysis of the Dtr Historian (2 Kgs 22 — 23), this same historian knows the ultimate fate of the Kingdom of Judah, despite eleventh-hour attempts at expansion and reformation (2 Kgs 23:26 — 27).
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