1 & 2 Kings /
Brueggemann, Walter.
1 & 2 Kings / 1 and 2 Kings. First and Second Kings. Walter Brueggemann. - Macon, Ga. : Smyth & Helwys, c2000. - xxii, 645 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. + 2 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) - Smyth & Helwys Bible commentary. . - Smyth & Helwys Bible commentary. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-614) and indexes.
I Kings -- Solomon's rise to power -- Solomon's consolidation of power -- Beginnings as a pious, wise king -- Royal impressivenesss -- Temple preparations -- Temple construction -- The temple dedicated and made operational -- An interface of theological warning and self-congratulations -- The global economist -- When the chickens come home to roost -- An urgent politcal settlement -- Ominous prophetic insecrutability -- Rival kings, in failure and in death -- A series of undistinguished monarchs -- Northern upheavals -- Elijah, man of power for life -- Troubler of Israel -- Letdown and revival -- War, diplomacy, and prophetic zeal -- A clash over land -- Ahab's last venture -- 2 Kings -- One more, king over prophet -- A transition in prophetic authrority -- A miscalculated war -- Elisha as a transformative force -- The leprosy of Naaman, healed and reassigned -- Iron floats -- Hidden allies -- Good news amid the vagaries of war -- Land restored -- The sorry future of three kings -- A bloody, prophet-propelled revolution -- The end of the bloody reign of Jehu -- Beginning again with a child king -- The long reign of Jehoash -- Kings, prophet, and war in the north -- On Amaziah and Jereboam II -- Two Judean kings, a series of northern nondescripts -- Ahaz as a willing accomodator -- The end of the northern kingdom -- Hezakiah's reform and the Assyrian threat -- A final threat and complete deliverance -- The end of Hezekiah: the long-term end of Jerusalem -- Manasseh and his son -- Josiah, man of Torah -- The rule and death of Josiah -- Four pitiful kings -- The final humiliation -- Two proximate conclusions.
9781573120654 (alk. paper) 1573120650 (alk. paper)
00046372
Bible.--O.T.--Kings--Commentaries.
BS1335.3 / .B7894 2000
222/.5077 220.77
1 & 2 Kings / 1 and 2 Kings. First and Second Kings. Walter Brueggemann. - Macon, Ga. : Smyth & Helwys, c2000. - xxii, 645 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. + 2 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) - Smyth & Helwys Bible commentary. . - Smyth & Helwys Bible commentary. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-614) and indexes.
I Kings -- Solomon's rise to power -- Solomon's consolidation of power -- Beginnings as a pious, wise king -- Royal impressivenesss -- Temple preparations -- Temple construction -- The temple dedicated and made operational -- An interface of theological warning and self-congratulations -- The global economist -- When the chickens come home to roost -- An urgent politcal settlement -- Ominous prophetic insecrutability -- Rival kings, in failure and in death -- A series of undistinguished monarchs -- Northern upheavals -- Elijah, man of power for life -- Troubler of Israel -- Letdown and revival -- War, diplomacy, and prophetic zeal -- A clash over land -- Ahab's last venture -- 2 Kings -- One more, king over prophet -- A transition in prophetic authrority -- A miscalculated war -- Elisha as a transformative force -- The leprosy of Naaman, healed and reassigned -- Iron floats -- Hidden allies -- Good news amid the vagaries of war -- Land restored -- The sorry future of three kings -- A bloody, prophet-propelled revolution -- The end of the bloody reign of Jehu -- Beginning again with a child king -- The long reign of Jehoash -- Kings, prophet, and war in the north -- On Amaziah and Jereboam II -- Two Judean kings, a series of northern nondescripts -- Ahaz as a willing accomodator -- The end of the northern kingdom -- Hezakiah's reform and the Assyrian threat -- A final threat and complete deliverance -- The end of Hezekiah: the long-term end of Jerusalem -- Manasseh and his son -- Josiah, man of Torah -- The rule and death of Josiah -- Four pitiful kings -- The final humiliation -- Two proximate conclusions.
9781573120654 (alk. paper) 1573120650 (alk. paper)
00046372
Bible.--O.T.--Kings--Commentaries.
BS1335.3 / .B7894 2000
222/.5077 220.77