The Transjordanian palimpsest : the overwritten texts of personal exile and transformation in the Deuteronomistic history /

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Author / Creator:Hutton, Jeremy Michael.
Imprint:Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 449 pages)
Language:English
Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Bd. 396
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 396.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11197949
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ISBN:9783110212761
3110212765
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Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Significantly Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-419) and index.
In English.
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Summary:This study analyzes several passages in the Former Prophets (2 Sam 19:12-44; 2 Kgs 2:1-18; Judg 8:4-28) from a literary perspective, and argues that the text presents Transjordan as liminal in Israel's history, a place from which Israel's leaders return with inaugurated or renewed authority. It then traces the redactional development of Samuel-Kings that led to this literary symbolism, and proposes a hypothesis of continual updating and combination of texts, beginning early in Israel's monarchy and continuing until the final formation of the Deuteronomistic History. Several source documents ma.
Other form:Print version: Hutton, Jeremy Michael. Transjordanian palimpsest. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2009 9783110204100 311020410X
Standard no.:10.1515/9783110212761