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The Kings and Their Gods: The Pathology of Power
May 15, 2008, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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2008, William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
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Table of Contents
First book of Kings
Who shall inherit the grand years of David? (chs. 1-4)
Solomon enthroned (ch. 1)
"Blood will have blood" (2:1-11)
"The wisdom of Solomon" (2:12-46)
Dreams and shadows of dreams (ch. 3)
The apotheosis of empire (ch. 4)
Stone upon stone, the king constructs immortality (chs. 5-9)
The "great pyramid" of Solomon (ch. 5)
The house of the Lord? (ch. 6)
A palace fit for a king? (ch. 7)
The temple dedicated : folly, fiction, obsession (ch. 8)
The tyrant and the convenient deity (ch. 9)
From Solomon to Jeroboam : kings run amok (chs. 10-13)
The king and the queen : wisdom compounded, unconfounded (10:1-13)
The great king : possessed by possessions (10:14-29)
Shadows over the empire (11:1-8)
Enemies and traitors : the decline and fall (11:9-43)
The seamless cloak, torn (ch. 12)
No strange gods before me (ch. 13)
Of kings and their gods : a tale of woe (chs. 14-22)
Jeroboam and Rehoboam : undone by idols (ch. 14)
A line of nonentities (chs. 15-16)
At long last, relief : Elijah the plainspoken (chs. 17-18)
Elijah and Elisha: God's chosen chooses (ch. 19)
King Ahab and the deity (chs. 20-21)
War, and yet again war (ch. 22)
Second book of Kings
Of kings and prophets : light and darkness contending (chs. 1:1-6:23)
Ahaziah : another king falls (ch. 1)
"My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its driver!" (ch. 2)
Elisha : a prophet to love and to loathe (chs. 3-4)
A virtuous duet and a dubious spirit (ch. 5)
A gift of unexpected mercy (6:1-23)
Famine and fury : war and its shadows (6:24-17:41)
The horrid banquet of war (ch. 6)
A moment's relief : the siege lifted (ch. 7)
Something terrible beyond telling (ch. 8)
The blood of kings
and queens (chs. 9-11)
A king's greed, a prophet's epitaph (chs. 12-13)
The spoils of war, continued (chs. 14, 15, 16)
Exile : the final tragedy (ch. 17)
Dawn at last : Isaiah and the last days of empire (chs. 18-25)
Hezekiah : king of contradiction (ch. 18)
Isaiah : prophet of hope against hope (ch. 19)
A puzzle of praise for a foolish king (ch. 20)
Innocent blood on royal hands (ch. 21)
The scroll : restored for good? (chs. 22-23)
Light amid the king's dark legacy (chs. 24-25).
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