The Judahite King List: Its Historical Setting and Possible Date (original) (raw)
On affirme souvent que l'une des sources du livre des Rois est une liste ou une chronique nommant les monarques de Juda et fournissant quelque information relative à leur règne. Au Proche-Orient ancien, les listes royales servent à asseoir la légitimité d'un roi au pouvoir et celle de sa dynastie. Cet article suggère que la croissance du territoire de Juda au IX e siècle av. J.-C., avec l'instabilité dynastique de la maison de David qui l'accompagne, fournit un contexte historique propice à la composition d'une telle liste tout en proposant une explication raisonnable à la présence de noms de reines mères.
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(1) Aan examination of all the available sources confirmed the biblical claim of the continuity of Davidʼs dynasty on the throne of Judah. In regular situations, the king would elect his heir, usually the elder son of his principal wife, and after his death this son would assume his fatherʼs throne. Yet, each king had several wives and many children, creating potential ongoing struggles regarding the throne. Under certain circumstances, the efforts of disappointed heirs to take over the throne by force developed into an armed struggle. A vivid picture of the competition over the throne between several candidates appears in the legendary story of the succession of Davidʼs throne (2 Samuel 13 – 1 Kings 2). In some other situations, when Judah was vassal of a stronger kingdom, the powerful overlord might enforce his own candidate over the elected heir to the throne. (2) Except for the short-lived dynasty of Jeroboam, most likely only two successive dynasties ruled the Kingdom of Israel: those of Baasha and of Jehu. The origin of the former is from the highlands of Manasseh and of the latter from the Jezreel or Beth-shean plains. Some of the Israelite kings were not direct descendants of the former murdered king, but were considered legitimate rulers because they belonged to the extended royal family. This conclusion differs from the deliberate picture the author of Kings drew, according to which several Israelite dynasties successively replaced each other. In contrast to the single dynasty that reigned in Judah throughout the monarchical period (mid-10th-early 6th centuries), only two dynasties reigned in Israel in the course of the 9th-8th centuries BCE. Thus, a difference exists in the dynastic succession between the two neighbouring kingdoms, but the difference is less dramatic than what emerges from the Book of Kings.
The Regnal Chronology of the Kings of Judah and Israel: An Illustrated Guide
The Regnal Chronology of the Kings of Judah and Israel: An Illustrated Guide is directed at students and academics of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament who have a specific interest in the chronology of the biblical Kings of Judah and Israel. The chronology is not my personal system, but that of Edwin R. Thiele who developed his chronology in the 1940s and 1950s and published widely on the subject. The most current edition of his work is known as “The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings,” which was published in various editions up until 1983. I have arranged the chart into a series of eight 50-year panes that are accompanied with a breakout chart of all of the available regnal details of each king. Wherever possible, I have included extra-biblical information to supplement and illustrate the chronology. This also includes a brief summary of each of the major intersections with the major imperial powers of Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon.
Story and History: The Kings of Israel and Judah in Context, 2019
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