The Books of Kings ─ Sources, Composition, Historiography and Reception

A comprehensive treatment of the history and components of Kings represents a departure from standard single-authored commentaries on it. Focusing on composition, sources, literary techniques, peoples and characters in the text, and on later transmission and reception of it affords students of the Books with a new resource, and sound bibliography.

Baruch Halpern, Ph.D. (1978) in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University, holds the Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies, and is Professor of Ancient History, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Religious Studies, and Fellow of the Institute of Arts and Humanities, at Pennsylvania State University.Andre Lemaire, Ph.D. (1973) in Oriental Studies, University of Paris III is correspondent of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres (Paris) and Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic Philology and Epigraphy at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris). He has published extensively on Bible and West Semitic Epigraphy including NAISSANCE DU MONOTHEISME. Point de vue d'un historien (Paris, Bayard, 2003) = THE BIRTH OF MONOTHEISM (Washington, Biblical Archaeology Society, 2007).