Hezekiah and the dialogue of memory /

Hezekiah and the dialogue of memory /

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Author / Creator:	Park, Song-Mi Suzie, author.
Imprint:	Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	xii, 318 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Emerging scholars Emerging scholars.
Subject:	Hezekiah, -- King of Judah. Hezekiah, -- King of Judah. Bible. -- Chronicles, 2nd -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Isaiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Kings, 2nd -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Chronicles, 2nd. Bible. -- Isaiah. Bible. -- Kings, 2nd. Jews -- History -- 953-586 B.C. Jews. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10149979

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ISBN:	1451485220 9781451485226
Notes:	Non-Latin script record Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-300) and index.
Summary:	Hezekiah is a critical figure in the Hebrew Bible, which credits him with major political, social, and religious reforms in Judah's history and the weathering of a major crisis in the invasion of the Assyrians under their emperor, Sennacherib. Examining the different accounts of Hezekiah's reign in 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Isaiah, Song-Mi Suzie Park describes a "Hezekiah complex" that developed over a long time, in which the figure of Hezekiah served as a symbol for the vicissitudes of Judah's history. The king could be understood as a positive reformer of the "pagan" ways of the country, or as a sinner, at least partly responsible for the threats and disasters that befell Judah, from Sennacherib's invasion through the Babylonian exile more than a century later. By showing how the stories about Hezekiah developed over time through a process of response and counterresponse, forming at the end a dialogue of memory, Park elucidates the ways in which biblical stories in general function as loci of continual dialogue, dispute, and discussion.

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