A History of Israel, Fourth Edition (Westminster AIDS to the Study of the Scriptures) by John Bright

Author:John Bright [Bright, John]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2000-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

Footnotes

1 For the period of the divided monarchy, we follow the chronology of W. F. Albright (BASOR, 100 [1945], pp. 16–22). Dates are, however, in certain cases approximate. Other chronologies vary by as much as a decade or more for the beginning of the period, but seldom by more than a year at the end: cf. E. R. Thiele, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings (rev. ed., Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1965); A. Jepsen, “Zur Chronologie der Könige von Israel und Juda” in A. Jepsen and R. Hanhart, Untersuchungen zur israelitischjüdischen Chronologie (BZAW, 88 [1964], pp. 1–48); C. Schedl, VT, XII (1962), pp.88–119; S. Mow-inckel, Acta Orientalia, X (1932), pp. 161–277; J. Begrich, Die Chronologie der Könige von Israel und Juda (Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1929); J. Lewy, same title (Giessen: A. Töpelmann, 1927).

2 On the structure of Kings and its place in the Deuteronomic corpus, cf. especially M. Noth, Ueberlieferungsgeschichtliche Studien I (Halle: M. Niemeyer, 1943), who places the composition of the work in the sixth century.

3 Though requiring critical evaluation, the Chronicler’s history is by no means to be dismissed cavalierly: cf. W. F. Albright, in Alex. Marx Jubilee Volume (Jewish Theological Seminary, 1950), pp.61–82. See also the commentaries of W. Rudolph, Chronikbücher (HAT, 1955) and J. M. Myers (3 Vols., AB, 1965). Differences between Chronicles and Samuel-Kings (in the synoptic portions) are not always to be explained as tendentious alterations; cf. W. E. Lemke, HTR, LVIII (1965), pp.349–363.

4 Had Solomon been similarly acclaimed? We do not know. But Rehoboam clearly could not hope to rule the north without an agreement. On the subject, cf. G. Fohrer, “Der Vertrag zwischen König und Volk in Israel” (ZAW, 71 [ 1959], pp. 1–22). On the function of the popular assembly, cf. C. U. Wolf, JNES, VI (1947), pp.98–108.

5 Both Rehoboam and Jeroboam are possibly throne names; both are archaic and have virtually the same meaning (“may the people expand/multiply”): cf. Albright, BP, p.59. On throne names in Israel, cf. A. M. Honeyman JBL, LXVII (1948), pp. 13–25.

6 Why this incident should be called unhistorical (e.g., Oesterley and Robinson, History of Israel [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932], I, p.274; Kittel, GVI, II, p.222; J. A. Montgomery, The Books of Kings [ICC, 1951], p.251) is difficult to see. It does not contradict I Kings 14:30, which does not, as we shall see, imply an attempt on the part of Rehoboam to reconquer the north.

7 On the history of this state, see M. F. Unger, Israel and the Arameans of Damascus (London: James Clarke, 1957); also B. Mazar, “The Aramean Empire and Its Relations with Israel” (BA, XXV [1962], pp.98–120); A. Malamat, POTT, pp. 134–155.

8 Probably Tell el-Melât, a few miles west of Gezer. Save that there were two campaigns twenty-five years apart, we know none of the details.

9 See below, p.242. Some believe that Moab remained subject to the northern state through this period (e.g., Noth, HI, p.226); but cf. R. E. Murphy, “Israel and Moab in the Ninth Century B.C.” (CBQ, XV [1953], pp.

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