3 periods of Monarchy (repeated)

• United
• Divided
• Judah

Signposts of the Deuteronomist

• Worship other gods
• allow other temples than Jerus.
• idols in the temple
• do not listen to prophets
• illegitimate rituals

Prophets in the DH

• Elijah: 1 Kings 17, 18, 19, 21, 2 Kings 1, 2,
• Elisha: 1 Kings 19, 2 Kings 2-9, 13
• Isaiah: 2 Kings 19-20
• Jeremiah: 2 Chron 35, 36
  • (cf. Carv 186)

Bible & Christian tradition (181)

• Messianism "hope for a future king"
  • Kingship (David as ideal)
  • Announted one (cf. Cyrus the Persian)

• Zionism "hope for a rebuilt temple"
  • Mt. Zion
  • Jerusalem

Focus on Method (197)

Historicism

• how are biblical texts used as evidence for historical "reconstructions"
• maximalists & minimalists
• e.g. of using Gone with the wind as a resource
• biblical texts as evidence for issuing facing the community when they were written

New historicism

• "all evidence is biased"
• "whose interests are served by each piece of evidence?"
• what is the ideology of the historian

The Temple

Readings

• Wise King
• Builds the Temple
• Praying towards God
• The Evil Kings do
• Josiah
• Sins of Manasseh

Summary

• a failed history
• purpose of the history (cf. "signposts")