Characters and Characterization In The Book of Kings

Cover\nTitle Page\nCopyright\nContents\nList of Contributors\nPreface\nList of Abbreviations\nChapter 1 Characterization and Ethics (John Barton)\nChapter 2 Ahaz and Jeroboam (A. Graeme Auld)\nChapter 3 Bathsheba between the Lines and beneath the Surface (Sara Koenig)\nChapter 4 The Portrait of Solomon in the Book of Kings (Amos Frisch)\nChapter 5 Rehabilitating Rehoboam (Rachelle Gilmour)\nChapter 6 Deceiving the Man of God from Judah: A Question of Motive (Paul Hedley Jones)\nChapter 7 Dancing with Death; Dancing with Life: Ahab between Jezebel and Elijah (Lissa M. Wray Beal)\nChapter 8 Jezebel Now: Gazing through Multiple Windows (Athalya Brenner-Idan)\nChapter 9 An Ambivalent Hero: Elijah in Narrative-Critical Perspective (Iain Provan)\nChapter 10 The Character of Elisha and His Bones (Stuart Lasine)\nChapter 11 He’s Driving Like Jehu—Like a Madman: Humor and Violence in 2 Kings 9–10 (Mark Roncace)\nChapter 12 Athaliah: The Queen Who Was Not (Patricia Dutcher-Walls)\nChapter 13 Artifacts of Scenery or Agents of Change? A Subaltern Character in 2 Kings 4:1-7 (Gina Hens-Piazza)\nChapter 14 The Trust of Hezekiah: In YHWH … and Assyria, Egypt, and Babylon (2 Kings 18–20) (David T. Lamb)\nChapter 15 Manasseh the Boring: Lack of Character in 2 Kings 21 (Alison L. Joseph)\nChapter 16 To Reform or Not to Reform: Characterization and Ethical Reading of Josiah in Kings (S. Min Chun)\nAfterword\nBibliography\nIndex of References\nIndex of Authors