Biblical Hebrew Forum

["George Athas" <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>]

> [...]
> Did the royal narrator use the Deuteronomic material to help him
> construct his life of Solomon?  It would appear that while the so-called
> Court Historian of I  Kgs. 10 & 11 had access to Deut. 17:16,17, that
> the Chronicler in his revisionism of the life of the wise king, had,
> either, no knowledge of I Kgs. 11, or, chose to ignore it.

The deuteronomic ban on kings trading horses (and wives!) seems a very 
specific ban. It
might be the Deuteronomist who got it from Kings.

Best regards,
George Athas
 Dept of Semitic Studies,
 University of Sydney
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