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1 - Solving for Pattern

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2020

Daniel J. D. Stulac
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Duke University, North Carolina
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Chapter 1 addresses five topics preliminary to the exegetical portions of this study: Kings’ compositional history, genre (especially in light of comparisons to Greek historiography), and rhetorical purpose, as well as a canonical approach to Kings and an agrarian reading strategy applied to Kings. As opposed to either factual history or fictional story, this volume argues that Kings is best described as a scripture directed at its readers’ theological imaginations. Such an observation suggests the validity of approaching the book from a canonical frame of reference, where its origins, shaping, and reception are understood to sit within a single field of compositional activity. Finally, Chapter 1 describes an agrarian hermeneutic as one reading strategy especially compatible with a canonical approach to the Bible at large.

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  • Solving for Pattern
  • Daniel J. D. Stulac, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: Life, Land, and Elijah in the Book of Kings
  • Online publication: 19 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108920018.002
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  • Solving for Pattern
  • Daniel J. D. Stulac, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: Life, Land, and Elijah in the Book of Kings
  • Online publication: 19 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108920018.002
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  • Solving for Pattern
  • Daniel J. D. Stulac, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: Life, Land, and Elijah in the Book of Kings
  • Online publication: 19 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108920018.002
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