Unfolding the Deuteronomistic History: Origins Upgrades Present Text

About this book

The Deuteronomistic History is the label used by scholars for the Old Testament books of Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Samuel and the First and Second Book of the Kings as identified by Martin Noth. Campbell and OBrien provide the biblical text with detailed notations on how this work came together was modified and was passed down to us in its present form accounting for the shifts in Israels and Judahs histories their storytelling practices and their ideological interests. Identifying and explaining what accounts for these literary and social processes makes this volume a major step forward for the study of this major block of biblical texts.