Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Biblica
Angaben zur Quelle:
100,4 (2019) 594-600
Keywords:
Bible. Criticism, Redaction
;
Assyro-Babylonian literature Relation to the Bible
;
Assyria In the Bible
;
Babylonia Historiography
Abstract:
The redactional history of the Book of Kings is a complex and very disputed issue. Many recent studies offer interesting comparisons between the introductory and concluding summaries of 1-2 Kings and the Mesopotamian Chronicles, but their results are divergent. With no claim at solving the many issues of the redactional history of the Book of Kings, this article suggests the existence of two clues — i.e. the attribution of the fall of Samaria to Shalmaneser V and the use of the hypocoristic form Pûl for Tiglat-pileser III — that allow us to connect some historical information given in Kings with a late Babylonian tradition rather than with an earlier Neo-Assyrian one.
DOI:
10.2143/BIB.100.4.3287299
URL:
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