Description: Ingrid Hjelm examines the composition of the Books of Kings, using the Hezekiah narratives in 2 Kings 1820 as a focus. She argues that this narrative is taken from that of the book of Isaiah, with which it shares linguistic and thematic elements. In Kings, it is used with the specific purpose of breaking the compositional pattern of curse, which threatens to place Jerusalem on a par with Samaria.
Brief description: Andrew Mein is Director of Research at the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, UK
Review Quotes: Old Testament Abstracts: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly/ Vol. 29, 2006--Sanford Lakoff