Jerusalem's Rise to Sovereignty

Dr Ingrid Hjelm is Research Associate at the the Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies and the Department of Biblical Studies, University of Copenhagen.

• Chapter 1: Introduction - Creating the Case; Preliminary Remarks on contextual Problems Regarding the Zion Methaphor; Biblical Chronology and Historical Reconstruction; The Value of Form- and Redaction- Criticism; Conclusive Remarks Regarding Form- and Redaction- Criticism Outline of the Investigation; Chapter 2: The Hezekiah Narrative and the Composition of the Deuteronomistic History; 2 Kings 17-20: A Survey; Biblical Narrative and Historical Reality: Some Remarks; Motifs and Themes in the Hezekiah Narrative's Zion Ideology; Hezekiah and the Function of the Judgement Formulae in the Books of Kings; Jeroboam's Sin: The High Places and the Temples; The High Places, uaiaa, and the Habits of the Foreigners; Hezekiah as Moses' Successor? The Nehustan Motif; Josiah's Acts as a Variant Tradition? How Do We Fit this Narrative into the Ideology of the Books of Kings? Patronage and Idolatry, or How to Characterise the 'Way of David'? Chapter 3: Book of isaiah's Ahaz and Hezekiah Narratives as Foundation Myths; Preliminary Remarks on the Composition of the Book of Isaiah; The Provenance of the Hezekiah Narrative: The Form and Redaction-Critical Discussion; The Linguistic Evidence for an Isaianic Provenance Conclusion to Part One; The Function of the Hezekiah Narrative within the Book of Isaiah: Ahaz and Hezekiah: Competing Characters? Isaiah 7.9b; The Sign Motif: Or Will They Stand the Water Test? Isaiah's Preaching in the Light of the Assyrian Royal Ideology; Isaiah 37.3-4: Yahweh's Day of Wrath: The Birth Motif Exkursus: Yahweh Zebaoth; Isaiah 37.3-4: The Day of Distress,; Isaiah 37.3-4: Children Have Come to the Cervical Opening and There is No Strength to Deliver Them; Chapter 4: Deuteronomist versus Yahwist - Agreement and Conflict in Jewish and Samaritan Text Traditions; Tradition History According to Van Seters: Some Considerations; Deuteronomist and Yahwist: Jewish and Samaritan Traditions of Text Composition: The Pre-Exilic Period; Shiloh between Shechem and Jerusalem? Samaritan-Jewish Discussions over Cult Place and Tradition: The Post-Exilic Period; Chapter 5: Prophetic Understanding of the Status and Function of the Law: David and Moses in Competition; From Priesthood to Kingship; David and Moses: Prophet versus Prophet? Law and Prophecy: Davidic Institutions versus Mosaic Law; Look, I have Created Something New; Chapter 6: Mountain versus Mountain - The Place Yahweh has Chosen; Mt. Zion as the Mountain of the House of Yahweh; Zion and David Traditions in Extra-Biblical Literature; Baruch, Sirach, Judith and Jubilees; Eupolemus, Pseudo-Eupolemus, I Enoch and Tobit; 1 Maccabees as Apologia; 1 Maccabees: The Introduction; 1 Maccabees: Jerusalem-Zion versus Antioch: Fighting the Seven-Headed Monster; 1 Maccabees: Utopia's Realisation? 2 Maccabees: Divine Electon of Jerusalem as Yahweh's Abode and Judas as a Worthy Theocratic Leader; Conclusion: The Place Yahweh Has Chosen; Indices; Abbreviations; Bibliography

Review in International Review of Biblical Studies, Vol 51: 2004/05