"My Father, My Father! Chariot of Israel and Its Horses!" (2 Kings 2:12 // 13:14): Elisha's or Elijah's Title?

2018 ◽  
Vol 137 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Weingart
Keyword(s):  
Kings 2

The LXX Additions (Miscellanies) in 1 Kings 2 (3 Reigns 2)

Textus ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuel Tov
Keyword(s):  
Kings 2 ◽  
1 Kings

Heirs Apparent in Juxtaposition: David in Samuel-Kings and Michael Corleone in The Godfather

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-333
Author(s):  
George Aichele ◽  
Peter D. Miscall ◽  
Richard Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Power Structure ◽  
Kings 2 ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Crime Family ◽  
1 Samuel

Abstract We read together the story of David in 1 Samuel 16-2 Kings 2 and that of Michael Corleone in The Godfather. They both begin outside the main power structure, the kingdom of Saul and the crime family, and then rise, often through the use of violence, to the top: King and Don. David’s decisive slaying of Goliath is matched by Michael’s assassination of Sollozzo and McCluskey. After the killings both are now recognized as serious “players” in their respective structures. As they move up the power chain David and Michael, as characters in biblical narrative and modern film, are haunted by the possibility that their stories could have been different: the innocent young shepherd and the decorated Marine. Both could be separate from the violence and corruption of Israelite monarchy and of the Corleone family.

The heart of the (Deuteronomic) matter: Solomon and the book of the Law

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-230
Author(s):  
David A. Bergen
Keyword(s):  
Kings 2 ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
The Law ◽  
1 Kings ◽  
The Temple

Two interrelated communications play before the reader of the deuteronomic narrative: Moses' promulgation of the written book of the law to Israel, and the narrator's mediation of it to the external reader (Sonnet 1997). After Moses' death, the embedded "book of the law" awaits hermeneutical engagement by characters populating the Primary Narrative (Genesis-Kings). This paper analyzes narratologically Solomon's temple prayer of dedication in 1 Kings 8, which obviously confirms Solomon's conformity to his father's advice (1 Kings 2: 3-4). Solomon's discourse also reveals an aptitude for innovative appropriation as he transforms the house of God into a mechanism for normalizing problematic divine-human relations. In making the temple pivotal to Israel's relationship with God, Solomon substitutes his cult for Moses' law.

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