This literary-rhetorical study develops and applies a methodology for discerning irony in Hebrew Bible narrative to 1 Kgs 16:29–22:40 and then pursues implications of its findings for questions raised by source, redactional, and socio-historical investigations of this unit, King…
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Jezebel is well remembered by readers of 1 and 2 Kings. Although she is memorable in part because of her grisly death, a rhetorical reading of the redactional layers containing Jezebel reveals a glaring disjuncture in her characterization. This may be why Jezebel looms so large …
In a contribution to the study of biblical narrative and the analysis of the Primary History (Genesis-Kings, Jewish canon), I argue that three biblical texts are mises-en-abyme. Mise-en-abyme is a term used by literary critics to refer to a part of a literary work that duplicate…
Scholars have observed that ancient Egypt had a profound impact on the peoples of ancient Palestine, including the Israelites. Many of these scholars have attributed much of this impact on Palestine and the Israelites to the time of David and Solomon, their conclusions being bas…
This thesis examines David's masculinity in three selected passages---1 Sam 17:1-18:5, 1 Sam 24:1-22, and 1 Kgs 1:1-49, to exhibit the articulation of power through gender in the David Story. Since gender is fundamentally relational, I begin with an investigation of the interact…
Often, interpreters of the Deuteronomistic History (DH) overlook its complex use of disability imagery. They frequently understand this imagery as having only rather transparent meanings. Through a close study of Mephibosheth's character in the David Story (1 Sam 16–1 Kgs 2), th…
The books of 1 and 2 Kings explicitly focus on the ideological motivations of the DtrH, but within this narrative, the text leaves intrinsic clues on the economic structures within ancient Israel. This study uses the anthropological paradigm of Karl Polanyi as a lens to analyze …