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Royal Illness and Kingship Ideology in the Hebrew Bible

by Isabel Cranz (university Of Pennsylvania)

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm

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In this book, Isabel Cranz offers the first systematic study of royal illness in the Books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles. Applying a diachronic approach, she compares and contrasts how the different views concerning kingship and illness are developed in the larger trajectory of the Hebrew Bible. As such, she demonstrates how a framework of meaning is constructed around the motif of illness, which is expanded in several redactional steps. This development takes different forms and relates to issues such as problems with kingship, the cultic, and moral conduct of individual kings, or the evaluation of dynasties. Significantly, Cranz shows how the scribes living in post-monarchic Judah expanded the interpretive framework of royal illness until it included a message of destruction and a critique of kingship. The physical and mental integrity of the king, therefore, becomes closely tied to his nation and the political system he represents.
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  • Author

    Isabel Cranz (university Of Pennsylvania)

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    October 2020

  • Weight

    468g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781108830492

  • ISBN-10

    1108830498

  • Eden Code

    5311408

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