Soundings in Kings: Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship

The reigning assumptions in late twentieth-century scholarship on 1 and 2 Kings and indeed on all of the so-called Deuteronomistic History have come under serious question. When and at whose hands did these books take shape? What sources were available to the authors? How well do these books fit into the larger history of which they are a part and what is Deuteronomistic about it?. In Soundings in Kings the first volume in Fortress Presss Soundings series international scholars representing diverse approaches pursue these and related questions identifying new methods and models for the social location of the authors (or redactors) of Kings and their intended readers. They capture contemporary thinking and point the way to future explorations of these important books-a crossroads between prophecy poetry and wisdom popular tradition and national narrative.