Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT sil.org]

Dear Prof. Thompson,

I wonder if you could explain what you mean by this phrase? For I find 
one of the major difficulties I have with views such as yours and 
Prof. Lemche's is that of explaining how the books of Kings come to 
include a significant amount of data which is confirmed in various 
quite different sources, mainly Assyrian and Babylonian.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: SV: SV: SV: historiography (Jonathan: was Solomon)
Author:  <tlt AT teol.ku.dk> at Internet
Date:    05/01/2000 11:56

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          But II Kings here is drawing on a literary trope, and must be so
understood, before we can talk about its historical uses.

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