RT Article
T1 In Nehemiah's Footsteps?: Uzziah at the Service of the Chronicler's Ideology
JF The journal of Hebrew scriptures
VO 23
SP 1
OP 37
A1 Gluska, Eran
A1 Lipshits, ʿOded 1963-
LA English
PB The National Library of Canada
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1880326418
AB Uzziah ruled in Judah for many years, yet the description of his rule in the book of Kings is laconic. The book of Chronicles, on the other hand, provides an extensive description of his reign that stems from authorial ideology, theology, and processes of identity formation. The book of Ezra-Nehemiah describes a series of confrontations from four directions, with Uzziah’s battles with the Philistines, the Arab tribes, and the Ammonites being three of these fronts. The Chronicler, writing several decades after Ezra-Nehemiah, was aware of the Ezra-Nehemiah text or its narrative, and developed the figure of Uzziah as a great king, thus serving his own national, economic, ethnic, and religious goals.
K1 Chronicles
K1 Ezra-Nehemiah
K1 Uzziah
K1 Yehud
DO 10.5508/jhs29627