Foreword

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Part I INTRODUCTION

Deuteronomistic Historiography (DH): History of Research and Debated Issues

Thomas Romer

Albert De Pury

Part II ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY

Postexilic Historiography: How and Why?

Sara Japhet

A Debate on Comparative Historicities

Marcel Detienne

Historical Times in Mesopotamia

Jean-Jacques Glassner

Part III TEXTUAL CRITICISM AND LITERARY CRITICISM

Jeroboam and the Division of the Kingdom in the Ancient Septuagint: LXX 3 Kingdoms 12.24 a-z, MT 1 Kings 11-- 12; 14 and the Deuteronomistic History

Adrian Schenker

2 Samuel 5--8 and the Deuteronomist: Textual Criticism or Literary Criticism?

Stephen Pisano

Part IV DIACHRONIC AND SYNCHRONIC METHODS

The Trouble with Kingship

Steven L. McKenzie

History and Law: Deuteronomistic Historiography and Deuteronomic Law Exemplified in the Passage from the Period of the Judges to the Monarchical Period

Walter Dietrich

When Josiah has Done his Work or the King Is Properly Buried: A Synchronic Reading of 2 Kings 22.1--23.28

Francoise Smyth

Part V THE SOURCES OF DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY

The Sources of the Deuteronomic History: Research on Joshua 1--12

Jacques Briend

Part VI THE MILIEUS OF THE DEUTERONOMISTS

Does `Deuteronomistic Historiography' (DH) Exist?

Ernst Axel Knauf

Is There a Deuteronomistic Redaction in the Book of Jeremiah?

Thomas Romer

Part VII DEUTERONOMISTIC IDEOLOGY AND THEOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomistic Ideology and Theology of the Old Testament

Martin Rose

Deuteronomistic Ideology and the Theology of the Old Testament

Andrew D.H. Mayes

Index of References

Index of Authors