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.