ISBN:
9781108830492
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 235 Seiten
Year of publication:
2021
Series Statement:
Society for Old Testament study monographs
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cranz, Isabel, 1980 - Royal illness and kingship ideology in the Hebrew bible
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cranz, Isabel, 1980 - Royal illness and kingship ideology in the Hebrew bible
DDC:
222/.06
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Kings and rulers Biblical teaching
;
Diseases Biblical teaching
;
Health Biblical teaching
;
Bibel 1. Samuel
;
Bibel 1. Könige
;
Bibel 1. Chronik
;
Gesundheit
;
Gesundheitsstörung
;
Herrscher
Abstract:
"In this book, Isabel Cranz offers the first systematic study of royal illness in the Books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles. Applying a diachronic approach, she compares and contrasts how the different views concerning kingship and illness are developed in the larger trajectory of the Hebrew Bible. As such, she demonstrates how a framework of meaning is constructed around the motif of illness, which is expanded in several redactional steps. This development takes different forms and relates to issues such as problems with kingship, the cultic, and moral conduct of individual kings, or the evaluation of dynasties. Significantly, Cranz shows how the scribes living in postmonarchic Judah expanded the interpretive framework of royal illness until it included a message of destruction and a critique of kingship. The physical and mental integrity of the king, therefore, becomes closely tied to his nation and the political system he represents"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 191-219
URL:
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