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Ausgabe:

Oktober/2021

Spalte:

916–918

Kategorie:

Altes Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Weingart, Kristin

Titel/Untertitel:

Gezählte Geschichte. Systematik, Quellen und Entwicklung der synchronistischen Chronologie in den Königebüchern.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2020. XIV, 246 S. = Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 142. Lw. EUR 124,00. ISBN 9783161582950.

Rezensent:

Bob Becking

This Habilitationsschrift from Tübingen is a daring book, for three reasons. Firstly, Weingart discusses a topic that at first sight seems to be neither glamorous nor fashionable: the mysterious numbers of the Hebrew Kings. The numerals for the reigns of the kings of Judah and Israel have always puzzled scholars since they do not present an coherent system on which the backbone of the history of Ancient Israel could be written. Within the Books of Kings there are constant references to synchronisms between the reigns of rulers from both kingdoms. These synchronisms are sometimes helpful and sometimes rather confusing. The same holds for the synchro nisms with extra Biblical, mainly cuneiform evidence. W. dis-cusses the underlying problems: sometimes the Thronbesteigungsjahr ...


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