The composition of the Elijah-Elisha stories and the Deuteronomistic History

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 487-508

  Otto, Susanne ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

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EID: 60950331921     PISSN: 03090892     EISSN: 14766728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030908920302700405     Document Type: Review

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1. M. Noth, Überlieferungsgeschichtliche Studien (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 3rd edn, 1967), pp. 79-85;
2. J.A. Montgomery, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Kings (ICC, 17; Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1951), pp. 38-41;
3. J. Gray, I and II Kings (London: SCM Press, 3rd edn, 1977), pp. 29-35;
4. G. Fohrer, Elia (ATANT, 53; Zürich: Zwingli Verlag, 2nd edn, 1968), pp. 33-54;
5. O.H. Steck, Überlieferung und Zeitgeschichte in den Elia-Er zählung en (WMANT, 26; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1968);
6. W. Dietrich, Prophetie und Geschichte (FRLANT, 108; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1972), pp. 48-51, 120-27;
7. G. Hentschel, Die Elijaerzählungen (Erfurter theologische Studien, 33; Leipzig: St Benno, 1977), pp. 228-37;
8. A.D.H. Mayes, The Story of Israel between Settlement and Exile (London: SCM Press, 1983), pp. 106-32;
9. A.F. Campbell, Of Prophets and Kings (CBQMS, 17; Washington, DC: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1986);
10. N. Na'aman, 'Prophetic Stories as Sources for the Histories of Jehoshaphat and the Omrides', Bib 78 (1997), pp. 153-73.
11. For details see Otto, Jehu, Elia und Elisa, pp. 124-29, 151-52.
12. Compare, e.g., H.-Chr. Schmitt, Elisa (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus/ Gerd Mohn, 1972), pp. 119-26;
13. E. Würthwein, 'Zur Opferprobe Elias I Reg 18,21-39', in V. Fritz, K.-F. Pohlmann and H.-Chr. Schmitt (eds.), Prophet und Prophetenbuch (BZAW, 185; Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1989), pp. 277-84;
14. E. Blum, 'Der Prophet und das Verderben Israels', VT 47 (1997), pp. 277-92;
15. Otto, Jehu, Elia und Elisa, pp. 151-96, 211-19, 252-53.
16. G. Hölscher, 'Das Buch der Könige, seine Quellen und seine Redaktion', in H. Schmidt (ed.), (FRLANT, 36.1; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1923), pp. 184-86;
17. J.M. Miller, 'The Elisha Cycle and the Accounts of the Omride Wars', JBL 85 (1966), pp. 441-54;
18. Schmitt, Elisa; H. Seebass, 'Elisa', TRE 9 (1982), pp. 506-509;
19. J. Van Seters, In Search of History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), pp. 305-306;
20. E. Würthwein, Die Bücher der Könige, 1 Kön 17-2 Kön 25 (ATD, 11.2; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984), pp. 269-72, 366-68;
21. H.-J. Stipp, Elischa - Propheten - Gottesmänner (ATSAT, 24; St Ottilien: EOS Verlag, 1987);
22. S.L. McKenzie, The Trouble with Kings (VTSup, 42; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991), pp. 90-98;
23. M. Beck, Elia und die Monolatrie (BZAW, 281; Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1999), pp. 157-58.
24. who includes 1 Kgs 17-19 but not 2 Kgs 1, with that of Stipp (Elischa - Propheten - Gottesmänner, pp. 463-64),
25. who counts 2 Kgs 1 but not 1 Kgs 17-19 as belonging to the Deuteronomistic History, and with the approach of McKenzie (The Trouble with Kings, pp. 90-98), who postulates that the Deuteronomic History contained only 1 Kgs 21 and 2 Kgs 9-10, but not 1 Kgs 17-19 and 2 Kgs 1.
26. McKenzie, The Trouble with Kings, pp. 90-98.
27. Stipp, Elischa - Propheten - Gottesmänner, pp. 463-80.
28. See, e.g., H. Weippert, 'Das deuteronomistische Geschichtswerk', Theologische Rundschau 50 (1985), pp. 213-49;
29. H.D. Preuss, 'Zum deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerk', Theologische Rundschau 58 (1993), pp. 229-64, 341-95.
30. R. Smend, 'Das Gesetz und die Völker', in H.W. Wolff (ed.), Probleme biblischer Theologie (Munich: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1971), pp. 494-509.
31. F.M. Cross, 'The Themes of the Book of Kings and the Structure of the Deuteronomistic History', in idem, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973), pp. 274-89.
32. H.-D. Hoffmann, Reform und Reformen (ATANT, 66; Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 1980), pp. 15-21;
33. R. Albertz, A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period (2 vols.; London: SCM Press, 1994), II, pp. 387-88;
34. Van Seters, In Search of History, pp. 292-321;
35. B.O. Long, I Kings with an Introduction to Historical Literature (FOTL, 9; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), pp. 11-16;
36. J.G. McConville, 'Narrative and Meaning in the Book of Kings', Bib 70 (1989), pp. 31-49.
37. See E. Zenger, 'Die deuteronomistische Interpretation der Rehabilitierung Jojachins', BZ NF 12 (1968), pp. 16-30;
38. Albertz, A History of Israelite Religion, II, pp. 387-88.
39. Compare Hoffmann, Reform und Reformen, pp. 15-21;
40. Long, I Kings, pp. 14-16.
41. W. Thiel, 'Deuteronomistische Redaktionsarbeit in den Elia-Erzählungen', in J.A. Emerton (ed.), Congress Volume, Leuven 1989 (VTSup, 43; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991), pp. 141-71.
42. Compare Hoffman, Reform und Reformen, pp. 97-101.
43. Compare Stipp, Elischa - Propheten - Gottesmänner, p. 463;
44. Beck, Elia und die Monolatrie, p. 149;
45. Miller, 'The Elisha Cycle', pp. 450-51.
46. Hölscher, 'Das Buch der Könige', pp. 184-85;
47. Compare Miller, 'The Elisha Cycle', pp. 450-51;
48. Schmitt, Elisa, pp. 131-32;
49. Würthwein, Die Bücher der Könige, p. 367.
50. The formula 'And...slept with his fathers' (1 Kgs 22.40) is used by the Deuteronomists only with respect to a peaceful death; see, for example, Hölscher, 'Das Buch der Könige', p. 185.
51. M.A. O'Brien, The Deuteronomistic History Hypothesis (OBO, 92; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989), pp. 26, 194-97.
52. Compare McKenzie, The Trouble with Kings, pp. 81-100.
53. S. Timm, Die Dynastie Omri (FRLANT, 124; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982), p. 112;
54. Timm, Die Dynastie Omri, p. 55;
55. Ch. Conroy, 'Hiel between Ahab and Elijah-Elisha', Bib 77 (1996), pp. 210-18.
56. Würthwein, 'Zur Opferprobe Elias I Reg 18,21-39', pp. 282-83;
57. Beck, Elia und die Monolatrie, pp. 153-56.
58. and Blum, Der Prophet und das Verderben Israels, pp. 277-92.
59. Compare Albertz, A History of Israelite Religion, II, pp. 454-57.
60. Compare Blum, Der Prophet und das Verderben Israels, pp. 286-92; he describes the function of 1 Kgs 17-19 as an apology of the prophecy of judgment and comes to a comparable dating.