Description:
This book is a textual-exegetical analysis of the Hebrew and Greek versions of 2 Samuel 6 and 1 Chronicles 13, 15-16 which argues that in the period of the Second Temple the text and story we now have in MT Samuel developed beyond those of synoptic Chronicles, and this development took place related to the concerns of apology of Davidic kingship, apology of Davidic and Yahwistic character, and cultic practice.
Brief description: Andrew Mein is Director of Research at the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, UK
Review Quotes: ..".it is a high quality work of careful scholarship, with a bold hypothesis that runs counter to the prevailing consensus...I fear that my short summary of Rezetko's book is an inadequate tribute to the enormity of his research. He provides a fine synthesis of scholarship and excellent bibliography (with meticulous documentation from start to finish). A great positive is that one does not necessarily have to agree with Rezetko's results in order to profit from his study...Overall anyone undertaking serious study of these passages will have to reckon with Rezetko's analysis, and those interested in the broader questions of textcritical controls as a means for determining earlier and later stages in a text's editorial history will need to consult this very readable book." Keith Bodner, Atlantic Baptist University, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, Vol. 8 (2008)--Keith Bodner