The Elisha-Hazael Paradigm and the Kingdom of Israel
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The Elisha-Hazael Paradigm and the Kingdom of Israel

The Politics of God in Ancient Syria-Palestine

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The Elisha-Hazael Paradigm and the Kingdom of Israel

The Politics of God in Ancient Syria-Palestine

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This study deals with the most important king of the Aramaean kingdom of Damascus, Hazael, and the impact he had on biblical literature, which goes beyond the few verses that mention him explicitly in the Book of Kings and the Book of the Twelve. The extra-biblical sources reveal that Hazael managed to create a large kingdom and to expand his authority over the whole of Syria-Palestine, including the Kingdom of Israel and the House of David, during the second half of the ninth century BCE. The Bible presents that power of Hazael as oppression of both kingdoms, yet the biblical writers elaborated a much more nuanced portrait of Hazael than first meets the eye. In the Elijah-Elisha cycles, Hazael provides a theological interpretative paradigm, the Elisha-Hazael paradigm, which provides in the Book of Kings and in the Book of the Twelve (especially in the books of Amos and Jonah) the key to explain God's mysterious dealings with Israel and Israel's enemies. Hazael is presented as a faithful agent of YHWH, who fulfils the divine plan. Beyond the power Hazael yielded across the Levant in his life time, the Elisha-Hazael paradigm reveals his enduring influence in Judah and in biblical literature.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
9781317544340
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Hazael’s empire in recent scholarship
  9. 2. History and the Bible
  10. 3. Hazael’s empire in archaeological sources
  11. 4. Hazael’s empire in West-Semitic epigraphic sources
  12. 5. The Assyrian inscriptions of Shalmaneser III
  13. 6. The Assyrian inscriptions of Adad-nirari III
  14. 7. The Eponyms
  15. 8. Commentary on the Assyrian sources
  16. 9. Hazael in extra-biblical sources: a conclusion
  17. 10. The Hazael paradigm in the books of Kings
  18. 11. The Hazael paradigm in the book of the Twelve
  19. Conclusion
  20. Appendix
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index