Textual and Literary Criticism of the Books of Kings : Collected Essays.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Recensional Criticism of 4 Kingdoms 25:18-19 -- Chapter 2 Jeroboam and the Assembly at Shechem (MT 1 Kings 12:2-3a -- LXX 3 Kingdoms 11:43 -- 12:24d, f, p) -- 1 History of Research -- 2 Delimitation and Spirit of the Parenthesis Clause -- 3 Apodosis of the Main Period -- 4 Contextual Relationships -- 5 Conclusions -- Chapter 3 The Alternative Stories about Solomon and Jeroboam (MT 1 Kings 12, 14 and LXX 3 Kingdoms 12:24b-z) -- 1 Jeroboam's Flight and Return and the Assembly at Shechem -- 2 Ahijah's/Shemaiah's Symbolic Action and Oracle -- 3 Shemaiah's Oracle (1 Kgs 12:22-24) -- 4 The Consultation of Jeroboam's Wife with Ahijah of Shiloh on Her Ill Son's Fate -- 5 Summary -- 6 Conclusions: Composition and Redaction of the Literary Cycle -- 7 Final Conclusions -- Chapter 4 The Supplements of LXX 3 Kingdoms 2:35a-o and 2:46a-l and the Main Body of the Composition of MT/LXX 1 Kings 4-10 -- 1 1 Kgs 4:20 -- 5:1-6 // LXX-S 2:46a, b, e, f, g, (h), i -- 2 MT 3:1b // LXX 2:35c -- 3 MT 9:15, 17b-18, 23-25 // LXX 2:35k, i, h, f, g -- 4 The Construction of Solomon's Temple and Palace (1 Kgs 5-7) -- Chapter 5 Redaction, Recension, and Midrash in the Books of Kings -- 1 Jeroboam at the Assembly at Shechem: MT 1 Kgs 12:2 // LXX 11:43 -- 2 The Accession Formula: Text and Composition -- 3 The Construction of Solomon's Palace: MT 1 Kgs 7:1-12 // LXX 7:38-50 -- 4 The Translation Equivalent lkn = ouch houtōs (lʾ kn): Vorlage or Targum? -- 5 Conclusions: Method in Identifying the Original Text of Kings -- Chapter 6 "Kaige" Texts in the Vetus Latina of Kings (4 Kingdoms 10:25-28) -- Chapter 7 Two Texts for a Story of a Resurrection: 2 Kings 13:20-21 (MT LXXB/LXXL OL) -- 1 The Two Textual Forms -- 2 The Two Literary Forms of the Narrative -- 3 The Midrashic Account and the Midrashic Version.

Chapter 8 The Old Greek of 3-4 Kingdoms: the Antiochene Text "before Lucian." A Revision of A. Rahlfs, Lucians Rezension der Königsbücher -- 1 Identity of the Basic Text of LXXL with a Pre-Hexaplaric Text Very Similar to That of the Vatican Codex -- 2 The Basic Text of LXXL Cannot Simply Be Identified with That of Codex Vaticanus (Aeth) -- 3 Pre-Lucianic Elements in LXXL -- Chapter 9 2 Kings 11 (MT/LXXB/L): Textual Variants and Literary Unity of the Narrative -- 1 Hiphil of the Verb mlk -- 2 Coup d'État Accounts -- 3 References to the Intervention of the People in Other Passages Alluding to the Coronation of a King Confirm the Previous Conclusions -- Chapter 10 From the "Old Latin" through the "Old Greek" to the "Old Hebrew" (2 Kings 10:23-25) -- Chapter 11 The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in the Books of Kings -- 1 The Original Text of the LXX Version -- 2 The Recensional History of the LXX Text -- 3 The Hebrew Parent Text -- 4 Conclusions -- Chapter 12 Textual Affiliation of the Old Latin Marginal Readings in the Books of Judges and Kings -- 1 The OL Marginal Readings in the Book of Judges -- 2 The OL Marginal Readings in the Book of Kings -- 3 Conclusions -- Chapter 13 The Text-Critical Value of the Old Latinin Post-Qumranic Textual Criticism (1 Kings 18:26-29, 36-37) -- 1 1 Kings 18:27 -- 2 1 Kings 18:36-37 -- 3 1 Kings 18:26, 29 -- Chapter 14 Samuel/Kings and Chronicles: Book Divisions and Textual Composition -- 1 Divisions between the Books: Multiple Endings and Beginnings -- 2 The Beginning of the Kaige Section (LXX 2 Kingdoms 11:1) and of the Succession History (2 Sam 11:1) -- 3 Different Arrangements of the Text: 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles -- 4 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles: Translatio Imperii or Translatio Templi -- Chapter 15 Kings (MT/LXX) and Chronicles: the Double and Triple Textual Tradition.

1 The Mention of Moses in 1 Kgs 8:9 // 2 Chr 5:10 -- 2 Kgs 14:6 // 2 Chr 25:4 -- and 2 Kgs 21:8 // 2 Chr 33:8 -- 2 The Composition of the Solomon Narrative: 1 Kgs 3-10 MT/LXX and 2 Chronicles 1-9 -- 3 Old Elements of the Textual and Literary Tradition of Samuel-Kings -- Chapter 16 Textual Criticism and the Literary Structure and Composition of 1-2 Kings/3-4 Kingdoms:the Different Sequence of Literary Units in MT and LXX -- 1 Old Latin Readings in 2 Kgs 13:17 -- 2 The Literary Structure and Composition of 1-2 Kings/3-4 Kingdoms: Different Sequence of Literary Units in MT and LXX -- 3 Conclusions -- Chapter 17 The Contribution of the Old Latin to the Reconstruction of the Old Greek of Judges and Kings: "Doublets" and "Additions" of the Antiochene Text Missing in the Old Latin -- 1 Judges -- 2 1-2 Kings (3-4 Kingdoms) -- Chapter 18 The Old Greek of Kings Preserved in Recent Witnesses: Manuscripts 158 and 56-246 -- the Marginal Readings of the Syro-Hexaplaric Text and the Syriac Text of Jacob of Edessa -- 1 Antiochene Readings in Manuscript 158 -- 2 Antiochene Pre-Lucianic Readings in the Marginal Notes of the Syro-Hexaplaric Version -- 3 Pre-Lucianic Readings in the Syriac Text of Jacob of Edessa (3 Kingdoms 1) -- 4 Conclusions -- Chapter 19 The Textual Growth of the Books of Kings:I. From Greek Hexaplaric Additions to Hebrew Editorial Glosses -- 1 Hexaplaric Additions as Empirical Evidence of Editorial Activity in the Proto-MT and in the LXX's Vorlage -- 2 Textual Traces of Additions of the Proto-MT and of LXX's Vorlage to Their Common Archetype -- 3 Conclusions -- Chapter 20 The Textual Growth of the Books of Kings: II. The Different Order of the Literary Units in MT and LXX and the Composition Process -- 1 Transpositions in MT/LXX 1 Kings 4:17-20 -- 5:1-7: a Case Study Developed by Rahlfs as Model of Analysis.

2 Transpositions in MT/LXX throughout 1 Kings 3 to 10 -- 3 Transpositions in 1 Kings 11:1-25. The "Satans" against Solomon and Israel -- 4 The Narratives of Jeroboam's Revolt and Ahijah's Symbolic Action -- 5 The Narratives of the "Alternative History" (LXX 12:24a-z) Transposed from Rehoboam's Reign to an Interregnum between Solomon and Rehoboam -- 6 Transpositions in MT/LXX throughout 1 Kings 22 to 2 Kings 14 -- Index of References of Biblical Passages and Ancient Literature -- Index of Modern Authors.

This volume contains a collection of Julio Trebolle's papers on textual and compositional history of 1-2 Kings, via Septuagint, Old Latin. His research is a key contribution to the landscape of textual plurality in the history of the Bible.

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