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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peter J. Leithart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tyndale House, Cambridge 2005-11-01
Series:Tyndale Bulletin
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.53751/001c.29181