Opening with the prophet Elijah's ascent into heaven and closing
with the people of Judah's descent to Babylonia, 2 Kings charts the
story of the two Israelite kingdoms until their destruction. This
commentary unfolds the literary dimensions of 2 Kings, analyzes the
strategies through which its words create a world of meaning, and
examines the book's tales of prophets, political intrigue, royal
apostasy, and religious reform as components of larger
patterns.
2 Kings pays attention to the writers' methods of representing
human character and of twisting chronological time for literary
purposes. It also shows how the contests between kings and prophets
are mirrored in the competing structures of regnal synchronization
and prophecy-fulfillment. Much more than a common chronicle of
royal achievements and disasters, 2 Kings emerges as a powerful
history that creates memories and forges identities for its Jewish
readers.
"2 Kings" is divided into four parts including Part One The
Story of Elisha: 2 Kings 1:1-8:6"; Part Two "Revolutions in Aram,
Israel, and Judah: 2 Kings 8:7-13:25"; Part Three "Turmoil and
Tragedy for Israel: 2 Kings 14-17"; and Part Four "Renewal and
Catastrophe for Judah: 2 Kings 18-25."
"Robert L. Cohn is professor of religion and holds the Philip
and Muriel Berman Chair in Jewish studies at Lafayette College.
Under the auspices of the American Jewish Committee, he lectured on
Jewish interpretations of the Bible as the first American
Jewish-scholar-in-residence at four Roman Catholic seminaries in
Poland.""
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