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This volume provides a readable introduction to the narrative books of 1 & 2 Kings appropriate for the student, pastor, and scholar. Fritz combines historical, literary, and archaeological approaches in an engaging synthesis. While he addresses issues of the deuteronomic redaction, the author does not become bogged down in technical discussions or allow this to overshadow the holistic...

of which has survived, however. The frequent references to a “Book of the Acts of Solomon” (1 Kgs 11:41*). “The Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel” (14:19*), and “The Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah” (14:29*) indicate that the author has used a source for the chronological and biographical notices that is now long lost. Also in other parts of the books of Kings already existing traditions have been used, whose origins and collections can no longer be illuminated. The two books of
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