Counterfeit Davids: Davidic Restoration and the Architecture of 1-2 Kings
1–2 Kings makes extensive use of what Moshe Garsiel has called ‘comparative structures’ in that the biographies of Jeroboam and Omri are analogous to David’s biography. Kings thus presents these kings as ‘counterfeit Davids’, and their dynasties as ‘counterfeit Davidic dynasties’. Further, the end o...
Main Author: | Peter J. Leithart |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Tyndale House, Cambridge
2005-11-01
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Series: | Tyndale Bulletin |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.53751/001c.29181 |
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