The three deaths of Josiah and the Strata of biblical historiography (2 kings XXIII 29-30; 2 chronicles XXXV 20-5; 1 esdras i 23-31)

Vetus Testamentum

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 213-236

  Talshir, Zipora ^a  

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DOI: 10.1163/1568533962580793     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Resuming the debate between Williamson and Begg. H.G.M. Williamson, "The death of Josiah and the continuing development of the Deuteronomic History, " VT 32 (1982), pp. 242-8;
2. C.T. Begg, "The death of Josiah in Chronicles: another view, " VT 37 (1987), pp. 1-8;
3. H.G.M. Williamson, "Reliving the death of Josiah: a reply to C.T. Begg, " FT 37 (1987), pp. 9-15.
4. CJ. Gadd, The Newly Discovered Babylonian Chronicle (London, 1923);
5. S. Hermann, Geschichte Israels in alttestamentlicher £eit (München, 1973), p. 333.
6. J.A. Montgomery and H.S. Gehman, The Books of fangs (Edinburgh, 1951), p. 537
7. Cf. Th. Willi, Die Chronik als Auslegung (Göttingen, 1972), p. 159.
8. "Josiah's Bid for Armageddon: the background of the Judaean-Egyptian encounter in 609 B.C., " in T.H. Gaster Festschrift, Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University 5 (1973), p. 275.
9. e.g., G. Pfeiffer, "Die Begegnung zwischen Pharao Necho und König Josia bei Megiddo, " MIO 15 (1969), pp. 297-307;
10. N. Na'aman. "The Kingdom ofjudah under Josiah, " Tel Aviv 18 (1991), pp. 3-71, esp. pp. 51-5.
11. W. Rudolph comments: "Er. . . gibt eine ausführlichere und, wie wir seit der Veröffentlichung der Chronik Nabopolassars wissen, richtigere Schilderung des Zusammenstosses mit dem Pharao Necho bei Megiddo, die also auf guter Tradition beruht." Chronikbücher (Tübingen, 1955), p. 331.
12. A. Malamat, "The Last Wars of the Kingdom of Judah, " JNES 9 (1950), pp. 218-21;
13. E.g., S.B. Frost, "The Death of Josiah: A Conspiracy of Silence, " JBL 87 (1968), pp. 370-1.
14. A.C. Welch, "The death of Josiah, " ZW 43 (1925), p. 256
15. e.g., C.F. Burney, Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Book of Kings (Oxford, 1903), p. 363
16. M. Noth, Geschichte Israels (2nd, Göttingen, 1954), p. 252
17. E. tr.: The History of Israel (2nd edn., London and New York, 1960), p. 279;
18. M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (Garden City, New York, 1988), pp. 300-2: Na'aman (n. 8), pp. 51-5.
19. C.C. Torrey, Ezra Studies (Chicago, 1910), p. 220;
20. Thus, S. Japhet insistently describes the Chronicler's account of Josiah's reign as a tendentious elaboration but nevertheless speaks of the war at Megiddo as a historical fact: I & II Chronicles (London, 1993), p. 1056.
21. G. von Rad, Das Geschichtsbild des chronistischen Werkes (Stuttgart, 1930);
22. A.C. Welch, The Work of the Chronicler (London, 1939), pp. 122-48.
23. Cf. S.R. Driver, An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament (9th edn., Edinburgh, 1913), pp. 202-3;
24. J.A. Montgomery, "Archival Data in the Book of Kings, " JBL 53 (1934), pp. 46-52.
25. See Z. Talshir, "Towards the structure of the Book of Kings-Formulaic Synchronism and Story Synchronism, " M. Haran Jubilee Volume (in the press).
26. See A. Rofe, "4QSama in the Light of Historico-literary Criticism: The Case of 2 Sam. 24 and 1 Ch. 21, " Festschrift P. Sacchi, Judentum 29 (1990), pp. 110-19.
27. See Z. Talshir, "The Nature of the Edition of the Book of Kings Reflected in the LXX" (Hebrew), Tarbiz; A Quarterly for Jewish Studies 59 (1990), pp. 249-302.
28. J. Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel (Edinburgh, 1885), pp. 226-7
29. Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels (2nd edn., Berlin, 1883), pp. 236-7.
30. A. Kropat, Die Syntax der Autors des Chronik (Giessen, 1900), p. 64.
31. see A. Bendavid, Biblical Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew (Hebrew) I (Tel Aviv, 1967), pp. 269-70.
32. S. Abramson, "Biblical Hebrew in Mishnaic Hebrew" (Hebrew), Language Studies 1 (1985), pp. 219-20.
33. R. Ei-senman and M. Wise, The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (London, 1992), p. 159.
34. E.Y. Kutscher, Hebrew and Aramaic Studies (Jerusalem, 1977), pp. 398-9;
35. S. Morag, "On Some Semantic Relationships" (Hebrew), Eretz-Israel 14 (1978), pp. 146-7.
36. M. Greenberg, Ezekiel 1-20 (Garden City, New York, 1983), p. 315.
37. Contra S.L. McKenzie, The Chronicler's Use of the Deuteronomistic History (Atlanta, Georgia, 1984), p. 188.
38. "The Chronicler and the Composition of 1 Esdras, " CBQ, 48 (1986), pp. 39-61.
39. Z. Talshir, / Esdras-Origin and Translation (diss., Jerusalem, 1984), pp. 6-47