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Monroe, Lauren A. S.

Josiah's reform and the dynamics of defilement : Israelite rites of violence and the making of a biblical text / Lauren A.S. Monroe. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2011. - x, 203 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Destructive rituals and the creative process : the dynamics of defilement in 2 Kings 22-23 -- Priestly rites of elimination and the holiness core of 2 Kings 23:4-20 -- Herem ideology and the politics of destruction : Josiah's reform in Deuteronomistic perspective -- The mechanics of transformation : the holiness substratum and Deuteronomistic revision of 2 Kings 23:4-20 -- Literary, historiographic, and historical implications.

ISBN: 9780199774166 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0199774161 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2010029059

Subjects--Personal Names:
Josiah, King of Judah.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible.--Kings, 2nd, XXII-XXIII--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Leviticus XVII-XXVI.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jews--History--Historiography.--To 586 B.C.
Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism)
Violence in the Bible.

LC Class. No.: BS580.J75 / M66 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 222/.54066