Seeing David Double by A. Graeme Auld

Author:A. Graeme Auld
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2023-07-03T13:41:50.581000+00:00

Tracing the Writing of Kings with Nadav Na’aman and Klaus-Peter Adam

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Klaus-Peter Adam on Jepsen

Within an interesting collection of Soundings in Kings, Adam (2010) contributed a substantial re-presentation of Alfred Jepsen’s account of the sources of Kings (Jepsen 1956). Jepsen’s synchronistic chronicle had started with Solomon (1 Kgs 2:10–12) and finished with Hezekiah (2 Kgs 18:1–2, 8). Adam notes that more synchronistic chronicles from Mesopotamia have been recovered since Jepsen’s work, focussing on dynastic succession, securing frontiers, and rebellions; and setting Jepsen’s proposals in a richer ANE context. Adam does not specify in detail his own view of the original extent of the Judah/Israel chronicle but devotes close attention to a pair of similarly structured narratives inserted near start and finish: about Asa (1 Kgs 15:16–22) and Ahaz (2 Kgs 16:5, 7–9) seeking help from Aram or Assyria when under threat from Israel. Both narratives ‘assume some form of a covenantal agreement between Israel and Judah before the outbreak of the war’ (2010, 65), each ‘emphasizing Judah’s tactics and the switching of covenantal relationships as a very successful political move’ (66).

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