RT Book
T1 YHWH is king: the development of divine kingship in ancient Israel
T2 Supplements to Vetus Testamentum
JF Supplements to Vetus Testamentum
A1 Flynn, Shawn W.
LA English
PP Boston
PB Brill
YR 2014
ED Online-Ausg.
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1656100908
AB Front Matter -- Introduction -- Stages of YHWH’s Kingship in Ancient Israel -- Cultural Translation as Method -- Marduk’s Kingship -- The Context and Motivations for YHWH’s New Kingship -- From Warrior King to Creator King: Change in YHWH’s Kingship as Theological Response to Neo-Assyrian Imperialism -- Bibliography -- Indices.
AB Amidst various methodologies for the comparative study of the Hebrew Bible, at times the opportunity arises to improve on a method recently introduced into the field. In YHWH is King , Flynn uses the anthropological method of cultural translation to study diachronic change in YHWH’s kingship. Here, such change is compared to a similar Babylonian development to Marduk’s kingship. Based on that comparison and informed by cultural translation, Flynn discovers that Judahite scribes suppressed the earlier YHWH warrior king and promoted a creator/universal king in order to combat the increasing threat of Neo-Assyrian imperialism. Flynn thus opens the possibility, that Judahite scribes engaged in a cultural translation of Marduk to YHWH, in order to respond to the mounting Neo-Assyrian presence
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BS1192.6
SN 9789004263031
SN 9789004263048
K1 Bible : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 God : Kingship : Biblical teaching
K1 Kings and rulers : Biblical teaching
DO 10.1163/9789004263048