YHWH is King: The Development of Divine Kingship in Ancient IsraelAmidst various methodologies for the comparative study of the Hebrew Bible, at times the opportunity arises to improve on a method recently introduced into the field. In YHWH is King, Flynn uses the anthropological method of cultural translation to study diachronic change in YHWH’s kingship. Here, such change is compared to a similar Babylonian development to Marduk’s kingship. Based on that comparison and informed by cultural translation, Flynn discovers that Judahite scribes suppressed the earlier YHWH warrior king and promoted a creator/universal king in order to combat the increasing threat of Neo-Assyrian imperialism. Flynn thus opens the possibility, that Judahite scribes engaged in a cultural translation of Marduk to YHWH, in order to respond to the mounting Neo-Assyrian presence. |
Contents
Chapter One Introduction | 1 |
Chapter Two Stages of YHWHs Kingship in Ancient Israel | 35 |
Chapter Three Cultural Translation as Method | 73 |
Chapter Four Marduks Kingship | 91 |
Chapter Five The Context and Motivations for YHWHs New Kingship | 119 |
Change in YHWHs Kingship as Theological Response to NeoAssyrian Imperialism | 175 |
Bibliography | 181 |
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Common terms and phrases
2Kgs Ahaz Ancient argues Aššur Assyrian imperialism Assyrian presence Baal Cycle Baal’s Babylon Babylonian Biblical Brill Canaanite change in YHWH’s chapter context corpus creation cult Cultural Translation Deir ʿAllā deity demonstrate Deut discussion divine council divine kingship El’s Enlil Enūma eliš Epic of Tukulti-Ninurta evident Exod 15 expressions of YHWH’s First-Isaiah Ghosh gods Hebrew Bible History influence Isaiah Israel Israelite Israelite Religion Israelite scribes Jeremias Jerusalem Jerusalemite Judah Judahite Kassite kingship of YHWH Lambert Leiden Levant limited kingship linguistic dating Machinist Marduk Marduk’s divinity Marduk’s kingship melammu military Monotheism motivated Mowinckel Neo-Assyrian empire Ninurta ofYHWH’s parallels poem policies Psalms of YHWH’s reference reign religious scholarship Shalmaneser III similar Smith Song source culture specific theology Tiamat Tiglath-pileser III Ugaritic universal kingship warrior king warrior language warrior tradition Yahweh YHWH YHWH kingship Psalms YHWH’s divinity YHWH’s king YHWH’s kingship YHWHism יהוה מלך