DOCSLIB.ORG

Throughout 1-2 Kings, the Reader Encounters References to Books in Which He Or She May Find Further Information About the King Just Described in the Biblical Text

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

Abstract: Throughout 1-2 Kings, the reader encounters references to books in which he or she may find further information about the king just described in the biblical text. This dissertation seeks to discover the character of these sources and how an author used them to shape the final form of 1-2 Kings. Several scholars to date have attempted to study these questions, but not in a form longer than an article. Thus this work assesses the previous attempts and offers a new proposal at greater length. Various methods are utilized in this investigation, including close literary readings of the biblical text and its grammatical components, comparisons of 1-2 Kings with ancient Near Eastern historiographical texts, and reading intertextually with other biblical texts. The yield is a work that affirms suspicions and initial investigations by some scholars and rebuts the conclusions of others, hopefully furthering conversations about the composition of 1-2 Kings and the Deuteronomistic History at large. They Are Written Right There: An Investigation of Royal Chronicles as Sources in 1-2 Kings Drew S. Holland Presented in partial fulfillment for the requirements of the Doctor of Philosophy (Biblical Studies) degree program at Asbury Theological Seminary Word Count: 67,169 (not including bibliography) © 2018 by Drew S. Holland. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Drew S. Holland. i Table of Contents List of Tables ii Acknowledgements iii Chapter 1: Introduction 1 The Citations within the Text of 1-2 Kings 5 The Genre of SRC, IRC, and JRC 13 Methodological Assumptions 20 Method, Thesis, and Anticipated Implications 24 Chapter 2: Literature Review 27 Early Critical Approaches in German-Speaking Scholarship 28 Early Critical Approaches in English-Speaking Scholarship 31 Alfred Jepsen and Later Support 35 Martin Noth 38 Sigmund Mowinckel 40 John Van Seters 42 Menachem Haran 44 Lester Grabbe 45 Christof Hardmeier 48 Christoph Levin 50 Nadav Na’aman 52 Skepticism 55 Assessment and New Horizons 60 Chapter 3: The Hebrew Royal Chronicles in Their Ancient Near Eastern Context 63 Historiography 64 Historiography in the Ancient Near East 68 Excursus: Source Citations in the Ancient Near East 88 Further Comparing the Neo-Babylonian Chronicles and Chronographic 93 Material in 1-2 Kings What Can the Neo-Babylonian Chronicles Tell Us about the Original SRC, IRC, 108 and JRC? Chapter 4: The Biblical Text and the Hebrew Chronicles 116 How Does the Biblical Text Delineate Hebrew Royal Chronicles? 116 Identifying Extracts from the Proposed Hebrew Royal Chronicles in 1-2 Kings 126 as a Source Citation Marker 135 ה ְַלֹא :Excursus When Were the Hebrew Royal Chronicles Integrated into 1-2 Kings? 141 Chapter 5: Conclusion 148 A Brief History of the Hypothesized Royal Chronicles 151 The Contribution of This Study to the Study of Redaction-Critical 154 Methodology The Contribution of This Study to the Debate over Israel’s Distinctiveness 161 Bibliography 166 ii List of Tables Comparing Elements of the Neo-Babylonian Chronicles and 1-2 Kings Table # Description Page # 3.1 Death and Burial Notice 85 3.2 Violent Death of a King 87 3.3 Rebellion 94 3.4 Length-of-Reign Notice 95 3.5 Accession Notice 97 3.6 Short Notice of a Battle Account 99 3.7 Parallel Information in a Longer 100 Battle Account 3.8 Alliance with a Foreign Nation 102 3.9 Building Project 103 Identifying Extracts of the Proposed Hebrew Chronicles in 1-2 Kings Table # Page # 4.1 128-130 iii Acknowledgements The following work is the product of several years of learning, debating with colleagues and professors, research, and writing. It has been a labor of love, faith, and cooperation. Although my name appears on the title page, there are several individuals to whom I owe a great debt of gratitude for the ultimate completion of this project. I wish to thank my family, for whom this work and my foray into doctoral studies would not have been possible. My wife, Vaughan Shearer Holland, has repeatedly put her own career on hold so that I may pursue my calling. That she allowed our family to move to a faraway city so that I could take a break from full-time church work to pursue a Ph.D. has proven to be her greatest sacrifice yet. I am grateful for my children, Sam and Anne Yates, who constantly reminded me over the last four years that there are more important things in life than critical scholarship of the Bible. My parents, David and Cathy Holland, have supported my education, both financially and emotionally, since birth. These are debts I cannot repay, but I humbly accept them as supererogatory acts of grace. I am especially appreciate of my dissertation committee. Bill Arnold has not only served as a Doktorvater, but also as a father in faith, since our first meeting in 2014. He shares with me the concern for utilizing biblical scholarship as a tool for the church (especially the United Methodist Church). I’m not sure I could have been paired with a more perfect mentor and advisor for my doctoral work. John Oswalt has reviewed several editions of this dissertation and has provided helpful feedback and corrections along the way. In addition, he has expanded my knowledge of the Old Testament and has enhanced my spiritual life through several courses and personal encounters. Steven McKenzie of Rhodes College functioned as my external examiner and did so having never met me before my defense. I am thankful for his service in this capacity for a complete stranger, especially as he helped me think through iv several issues in the draft of my dissertation he read. I am very glad that our paths have now crossed, as I now have another trusted and experienced resource in my continued study of 1-2 Kings. Many thanks also go out to the faculty, staff, and Ph.D. students at Asbury Theological Seminary, who have helped mold me into a better scholar and Christian. I have taken engaging courses and received invaluable advice over the last four years from Lawson Stone, John Cook, Fred Long, Ellen Marmon, Michael Matlock, and Michael Pasquarello. Lalsangkima Pachuau, Patti Walker, and the entire staff of the office of Advanced Research Programs at Asbury have been immensely supportive in facilitating the production of this work, as well as the completion of my degree. My cohort at Asbury has walked with me in the ups and downs of doctoral work since our first gathering. Through the process of learning and working together, I have made lifelong friends, aside from gaining scholarly colleagues and new exemplars in faith. I hope I will be excused for not naming others who have been supportive of my academic endeavors along the way. From teachers, professors, pastors, and members at church I’ve served, there are simply too many to name, but you know who you are. In all of these acknowledgements, the following work is my own. Though others have assisted me along the way, I alone take responsibility for any typographical, methodological, citation, or logical errors. And, for all of these individuals who have graced my life, thanks be first and foremost to God. Grace and peace, Drew S. Holland Eastertide 2018 Drew S. Holland 1 Chapter 1- Introduction The text of 1-2 Kings presents its readers with an array of literary styles. Narratives of rulers and prophets,1 prophetic oracles, lists of supplies and officials, architectural minutiae,2 and straightforward summaries of regnal deeds comprise this epic retelling of Israel’s monarchial history from the end of David’s reign to the Judahite exile. The interpreter of 1-2 Kings is challenged to identify these genres and clarify how they communicate the historian’s (or historians’)3 message, as well as explain how they fit into the larger whole of these books. The responsible interpreter, then, must be able to navigate the historical-literary background of 1-2 Kings in order to come to a greater understanding of 1-2 Kings.4 1 For a detailed study of the narrative genres in 1-2 Kings, see Alexander Rofé, The Prophetical Stories: The Narratives about the Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, Their Literary Types and History (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1988). 2 For an examination of the sources involved with the architecture of Solomon’s Temple, see Clifford Mark McCormick, Palace and Temple: A Study of Architectural and Verbal Icons (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2002), 31-32, 100- 106. 3 Several different terms abound to describe the work of the person or persons who were responsible for creating the final form of 1-2 Kings. Scholars will often characterize this person or these persons as “redactor” or “author.” This distinction is often made to emphasize the amount of creative activity involved in producing the final form of the text. “Redactor” is typically used to describe the “scissors-and-paste” approach of bringing source material together, while “author” stresses the creative writing of material to produce the material found in the final form of the text. To further complicate matters, several adopt Noth’s use of the title “Dtr” to describe an exilic redactor. But given the varying approaches to the composition of the Deuteronomistic History since Noth’s work, other scholars have designated several stages of “Dtr.” I would like to thank Steven McKenzie and John Oswalt for their help in identifying the need to use caution in adopting these titles. In what follows, I will attempt to be cognizant of the distinctions that have been made and will attempt to utilize the description “historian” in order to emphasize that both the use of sources and literary creativity were involved in producing the text as we now have it.
Recommended publications
  • History of Babylonia

    History of Babylonia

    K- A -AHI BLACK STONE CONTRACT TABLET O F MARU DU N DIN , 6 page 9 . ANCIENT HISTORY FROM THE MONUMENTS. THE F BABYL I HISTORY O ONA, BY TH E LATE I GEO RGE S M TH, ES Q. , F T E EPA TM EN EN N I U IT ES B T S M E M O H T O F O I T T I I I H US U . D R R AL A Q , R ED ITED BY R EV. A . H . SAY CE, SSIST O E OR F C MP T VE P Y O O D NT P R F S S O O I HI O OG XF R . A A ARA L L , PU BLISHED U NDER THE DIRECTION O F THE COMM ITTEE O F GENERAL LITERATURE AND ED UCATION APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FO R PROMOTING CH ISTI N K NOW E G R A L D E. LO NDON S O IETY F R P ROMOTING C H RI TI N NO C O S A K WLEDGE . SOLD A T THE DEPOSITORIES ’ G E T U EEN ST EET LINCO LN s-INN ExE 77, R A Q R , LDs ; OY EXCH N G E 8 PICC I Y 4, R AL A ; 4 , AD LL ; A ND B OO KSE E S ALL LL R . k t New Y or : P o t, Y oung, Co. LONDON WY M N A ND S ONS rm NTERs G E T UEEN ST EET A , , R A Q R , ' LrNCOLN s - xNN FIE DS w L .
  • To Bible Study the Septuagint - Its History

    To Bible Study the Septuagint - Its History

    Concoll()ia Theological Monthly APRIL • 1959 Aids to Bible Study The Septuagint - Its History By FREDERICK W. DANKER "GENTLEMEN, have you a Septuagint?" Ferdinand Hitzig, eminent Biblical critic and Hebraist, used to say to his class. "If not, sell all you have, and buy a Septuagint." Current Biblical studies reflect the accuracy of his judgment. This and the next installment are therefore dedicated to the task of helping the Septuagint come alive for Biblical students who may be neglecting its contributions to the total theological picture, for clergymen who have forgotten its interpretive possibilities, and for all who have just begun to see how new things can be brought out of old. THE LETTER OF ARISTEAS The Letter of Aristeas, written to one Philocrates, presents the oldest, as well as most romantic, account of the origin of the Septuagint.1 According to the letter, Aristeas is a person of con­ siderable station in the court of Ptolemy Philadelphus (285-247 B. C.). Ptolemy was sympathetic to the Jews. One day he asked his librarian Demetrius (in the presence of Aristeas, of course) about the progress of the royal library. Demetrius assured the king that more than 200,000 volumes had been catalogued and that he soon hoped to have a half million. He pointed out that there was a gap­ ing lacuna in the legal section and that a copy of the Jewish law would be a welcome addition. But since Hebrew letters were as difficult to read as hieroglyphics, a translation was a desideratum. 1 The letter is printed, together with a detailed introduction, in the Appendix to H.
  • Arameans in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

    Arameans in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

    Arameans in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Approaching Ethnicity and Groupness with Social Network Analysis Repekka Uotila MA thesis Assyriology Instructors: Saana Svärd and Tero Alstola Faculty of Arts University of Helsinki May 2021 Tiedekunta/Osasto – Fakultet/Sektion – Faculty Humanistinen tiedekunta Tekijä – Författare – Author Uotila Aino Selma Repekka Työn nimi – Arbetets titel – Title Arameans in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Approaching Ethnicity and Groupness with Social Network Analysis Oppiaine – Läroämne – Subject Assyriologia Työn laji – Arbetets art – Level Aika – Datum – Month and Sivumäärä– Sidoantal – Number of pages pro gradu -tutkielma year 80 liitteineen, 60 ilman liitteitä toukokuu 2021 Tiivistelmä – Referat – Abstract Uusassyrialaisen historian aikana assyrialaiset viittasivat kymmeniin eri ryhmiin ”aramealaisina”. Akkadinkielisen termin semanttinen merkitys muuttuu vuosisatojen aikana, kunnes 600-luvun assyrialaisissa lähteissä sitä ei enää juuri käytetä etnonyyminä. Tutkin työssäni, miten perusteltua on olettaa aramealaisten edustavan yhtenäistä etnistä ryhmää 600-luvulla eaa. Tutkimus olettaa, että sekä ryhmän ulkopuoliset, että siihen kuuluvat tunnistavat, kuka on ryhmän jäsen. Mikäli aramealaiset Assyrialaisessa imperiumissa kokivat edustavansa etnistä vähemmistöä ja ”assyrialaisiin” kuulumatonta väestöä, myös heidän sosiaaliset ryhmänsä todennäköisesti sisältäisivät lähinnä muita aramealaisia. Toteutan tutkimuksen sosiaalisen verkostoanalyysin (social network analysis) avulla. Käytän materiaalina Ancient Near Eastern
  • 1 a Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments Of

    1 a Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments Of

    A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE HEXAPLARIC FRAGMENTS OF JOB 22-42 Introduction As a result of the Rich Seminar on the Hexapla in the summer of 1994 at Oxford, a decision was made to create a new collection and edition of all Hexaplaric fragments.1 Frederick Field was the last scholar to compile all known fragments in the mid to late 19th century,2 but by 1902, Henry Barclay Swete had announced that more hexaplaric materials were ―accumulating.‖3 These new materials need to be included in a new collection of hexaplaric fragments, a collection which is called ―a Field for the 21st century.‖4 With the publication of two-thirds of the critical editions of the Septuagint (LXX) by the Septuaginta-Unternehmen in Göttingen, the fulfillment of a new collection of all known hexaplaric fragments is becoming more feasible. Project 1 Alison Salvesen ed., Origen’s Hexapla and Fragments: Papers presented at the Rich Seminar on the Hexapla Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 25th-3rd August 1994 (Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum 58 Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998), vi. 2 Frederick Field, Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt sive veterum interpretum graecorum in totum Vetus Testamentum fragmenta, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1875). 3 Henry Barclay Swete, An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902. Reprint, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2003), 76. 4 See http://www.hexapla.org/. Accessed on 3/20/2010. The Hexapla Institute is a reality despite Sydney Jellicoe‘s pessimism concerning a revised and enlarged edition of the hexaplaric fragments, which he did not think was in the ―foreseeable future.‖ Sidney Jellicoe, The Septuagint and Modern Study (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968), 129.
  • Did Sennacherib Campaign Once Or Twice Against Hezekiah 3

    Did Sennacherib Campaign Once Or Twice Against Hezekiah 3

    DID SENNACHERIB CAMPAIGN ONCE OR TWICE AGAINST HEZEKIAH 3 SIEGFRIED H. HORN Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan There is no lack of.lit erature on the subject under discussion. Articles, too numerous to mention,l and several monographs,2 have dealt with the problems of Sennacherib's dealings with King Hezekiah of Judah, especially with the question whether the Assyrian king conducted one campaign or two campaigns against Palestine. There are two principal reasons why until recently it has been impossible to give a clear-cut answer to this question. The first reason is that the Biblical records agree in some parts with Sennacherib's version of the one and only Palesti- nian campaign recorded by him, but in other parts seem to refer to events difficult to connect with the campaign mentioned in the Assyrian annals. The second reason is that the Biblical records bring Sennacherib's campaign-r one of his campaigns, if there were two-in connection with "Tirhakah king of Ethiopia" (z Ki 19 : g; Is 37 : 9) ; but the campaign of Sennacherib, of which numerous Assyrian annal editions have come to light, took place in 701 B.c., some 12 years before Tirhakah came to the throne. 1 A bibliography on articles in periodicals and treatments of the subject in commentaries and histories of Israel or of Assyria up to 1926 is found on pp. I 17-122 of Honor's dissertation mentioned in n. 2. For more recent discussions see H. H. Rowley, "Hezekiah's Reform and Rebellion," BJRL, XLIV (1962)~especially the footnotes on PP.
  • P.Grenf. 1.5, Origen, and the Scriptorium of Caesarea1

    P.Grenf. 1.5, Origen, and the Scriptorium of Caesarea1

    Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 52 (2015) 181-223 P.Grenf. 1.5, Origen, and the Scriptorium of Caesarea1 Francesca Schironi University of Michigan Abstract P.Grenf. 1.5, a fragment from a papyrus codex with Ezekiel 5:12-6:3, is here put in its historical context. Since it was written close to Origen’s own lifetime (185-254 CE), it provides early evidence about how he used critical signs in his editions of the Old Testament. It also sheds light on the work of the scriptorium of Caesarea half a century later. P.Grenf. 1.5 — P.Grenf. 1.5 and Origen’s critical signs — Hexaplaric Texts and P.Grenf. 1.5 — The “Revised” Edition of the Bible— P.Grenf. 1.5 and the Codex Marchalianus (Q)— Critical Signs in P.Grenf. 1.5 and Q —The Position of the Critical Signs in the “Revised” LXX Text — P.Grenf. 1.5 and Origen’s Work on the Bible — Conclusions P.Grenf. 1.5 (= Bodl. MS. Gr. bibl. d. 4 (P) = Van Haelst 0314 = Rahlfs 0922) is a fragment from a papyrus codex containing a passage from Ezekiel (5:12-6:3). After its publication by Grenfell in 1896,2 this papyrus has been included in the online repertoire of the Papyri from the Rise of Christianity in Egypt (PCE) at Macquarie University (section 24, item 332). However, to 1 I presented earlier versions of this paper at the 27th International Congress of Papy- rology, Warsaw, in July 2013, and at the SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, in November 2014.
  • Timeline of Old Testament Kings and Prophets

    Timeline of Old Testament Kings and Prophets

    Timeline Of Old Testament Kings And Prophets Teacherless Ronen usually subduct some altos or certificated pompously. Unspiritually sheenier, Paco refines outflows and empowers variscite. Tammie disproportionate manneristically. And captured them on nor does the old testament and of kings prophets amos the prophet subsequently proclaimed that goes about ancient israelite empires of the old These prophets of king ahaz, as a timeline in the author? The prophets were angry that? Notify me in it is greater than amos means it is in intimate relationship to you agree to them to my stuff. God in an old testament timeline of kings and prophets for letting em know, old testament timeline had a stronghold in. There is that there would share in prophetic tradition came to destroy you. And this people to the voices, there is the king of old testament timeline and kings of bul is going to by god? God can you just be lifted up here, and became a student can flesh, godly kings are told moses hid his people you got their displeasure with jerusalem with site was of old testament timeline and kings prophets. Please check the lord with the jerusalem for my chart according to anoint hazael as a testament timeline kings of old and prophets who have! In dating of the real past has its center. No way in battle ends on his place to literal israel of an angel or in short time period, and all later taken by email. The old testament kings and epiphanies, i said we are doing it becomes a timeline of old testament and kings prophets: articles that emerges is.
  • Umma4n-Manda and Its Significance in the First Millennium B.C

    Umma4n-Manda and Its Significance in the First Millennium B.C

    Umma 4n-manda and its Significance in the First Millennium B.C. Selim F. Adalı Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Arts Department of Classics and Ancient History University of Sydney 2009 Dedicated to the memory of my grandparents Ferruh Adalı, Melek Adalı, Handan Özker CONTENTS TABLES………………………………………………………………………………………vi ABBREVIATIONS…………………………………………………………………………..vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS…………………………………………………………………...xiv ABSTRACT…………………………………………………………………………………..xv INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………...xvi 1 SOURCES AND WRITTEN FORM………………………………………………………...1 1.1 An Overview 1.2 The Written Forms in the Old Babylonian Omens 1.3 The Written Form in the Statue of Idrimi 2 ETYMOLOGY: PREVIOUS STUDIES…………………………………………………...20 2.1 The Proposed ma du4 Etymology 2.1.1 The Interchange of ma du4 and manda /mandu (m) 2.2 The Proposed Hurrian Origin 2.3 The Proposed Indo-European Etymologies 2.3.1 Arah ab} the ‘Man of the Land’ 2.3.2 The Semitic Names from Mari and Choga Gavaneh 2.4 The Proposed man ıde4 Etymology 2.5 The Proposed mada Etymology 3 ETYMOLOGY: MANDUM IN ‘LUGALBANDA – ENMERKAR’……………………44 3.1 Orthography and Semantics of mandum 3.1.1 Sumerian or Akkadian? 3.1.2 The Relationship between mandum, ma tum4 and mada 3.1.3 Lexical Lists 3.1.3.1 The Relationship between mandum and ki 3.1.4 An inscription of Warad-Sın= of Larsa 3.2 Lugalbanda II 342-344: Previous Interpretations and mandum 3.3 Lugalbanda II 342-344: mandum and its Locative/Terminative Suffix 4 ETYMOLOGY: PROPOSING MANDUM………………………………………………68 4.1 The Inhabited World and mandum 4.1.1 Umma
  • THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY of AMERICA the Song of Deborah (Judges 5): Meaning and Poetry in the Septuagint a DISSERTATION Submitte

    THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY of AMERICA the Song of Deborah (Judges 5): Meaning and Poetry in the Septuagint a DISSERTATION Submitte

    THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA The Song of Deborah (Judges 5): Meaning and Poetry in the Septuagint A DISSERTATION Submitted to the Faculty of the School of Theology and Religious Studies Of The Catholic University of America In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree Doctor of Philosophy © Copyright All Rights Reserved By Nathan LaMontagne Washington, D.C. 2013 The Song of Deborah (Judges 5): Meaning and Poetry in the Septuagint Nathan LaMontagne, Ph. D. Director: Rev. Francis Gignac, S.J., D. Phil. Although the Septuagint is an underrepresented field in the world of biblical studies, there is much to be gained by examining it on its own merits. The primary purpose of this study is to examine the meaning of the Song of Deborah in the Greek translation in its own right and to determine what parallels it has with other sections of the Greek Old Testament. This involves, beyond exegesis, a study of the poetic style and the translational technique of the Greek text, especially in light of the other historical works of Greek-speaking Judaism, such as the Letter of Aristeas. This study will proceed along four lines of investigation. First of all, there is no Greek text of the Song of Deborah which enjoys widespread acceptance among scholars. Therefore, the first task of the study is to review all of the critical evidence of the Song of Deborah and produce an eclectic text which is as near as possible to the original Greek translation as can be obtained by modern means. Once established, the critical text of the Song of Deborah is used as the basis for the rest of the study.
  • Stages and Aims in the Royal Historiography of Esarhaddon

    Stages and Aims in the Royal Historiography of Esarhaddon

    ORIENT Volume 49, 2014 Stages and Aims in the Royal Historiography of Esarhaddon Israel Ephʻal The Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan (NIPPON ORIENTO GAKKAI) Stages and Aims in the Royal Historiography of Esarhaddon1 Israel Ephʻal* The last seven years of Esarhaddon’s reign were marked by intensive and varied royal historiography. This is demonstrated in some of his Babylon Inscriptions, in three comprehensive editions of res gestae, in the Letter to God, and in several monuments that were discovered at Zincirli, Tell Aḥmar, Nahr el-Kelb and Qaqun. The study of these inscriptions with special attention to the time factor and to events of clear political significance (Esarhaddon’s rise to the throne and his struggle for royal legitimacy, his steps toward reconciliation with the Babylonians and his military campaigns against Egypt – the first disastrous, the second victorious) enables us to ascertain the stages, aims, and methods of his historiography. Keywords: Esarhaddon, historiography, royal legitimacy, chronology of military campaigns I. Introduction The royal inscriptions of Esarhaddon, with their textual, literary and historical aspects, have been discussed quite extensively.2 The contribution of this article is in according special attention, beyond that which has been given so far, to two perspectives: 1. The significance of time as a factor by which to assess the information at our disposal about the political and military episodes that took place during Esarhaddon’s reign; 2. The enormous military and political impact (as well as the economic impact, in the case of the conquest of Egypt) of the failure of the first campaign to Egypt (in the seventh year of Esarhaddon’s reign), and its conquest in the second campaign (in his tenth year).3 *Professor Emeritus, Department of History of the Jewish People, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1 The numbers of the inscriptions in this article are according to E.
  • Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies Articles Book Reviews

    Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies Articles Book Reviews

    Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies Volume 44 • 2011 Editorial ......................................................................................................... 3 Articles Jacob of Edessa’s Greek Manuscripts. The case from his revision of the book of Numbers ........................................................................... 5 Bradley Marsh Epistle of Jeremiah or Baruch 6? The Importance of Labels ...................... 26 Sean A. Adams The Amazing History of MS Rahlfs 159 - Insights from Editing LXX Ecclesiastes ................................................................................. 31 Peter J. Gentry and Felix Albrecht Presentation of Septuaginta-Deutsch. Erläuterungen und Kommentare ..... 51 Martin Karrer, Wolfgang Kraus, Martin Rösel, Eberhard Bons, Siegfried Kreuzer Jérôme et les traditions exégétiques targumiques ........................................ 81 Anne-Françoise Loiseau Book Reviews Cook, John Granger, The Interpretation of the Old Testament in Greco-Roman Paganism ................................................................ 127 Christopher Grundke Gregor Emmenegger, Der Text des koptischen Psalters von Al Mudil ....................................................................................... 129 Kees den Hertog 1 2 JSCS 44 (2011) H. Ausloos / B. Lemmelijn / M. Vervenne (eds.), Florilegium Lovaniense. Studies in Septuagint and Textual Criticism in Honour of Florentino García Martínez ................................................................................. 136 Siegfried
  • 2016 DGA Episodic Director Diversity Report (By NETWORK)

    2016 DGA Episodic Director Diversity Report (By NETWORK)

    2016 DGA Episodic Director Diversity Report (by NETWORK) Combined # Episodes # Episodes # Episodes # Episodes Combined Total # of Female + Directed by Male Directed by Male Minority Directed by Female Directed by Female Network Title Female + Signatory Company Episodes Minority Male Caucasian % Male % Female Caucasian % Female Minority % Minority % Episodes Caucasian Minority Caucasian Minority A&E Bates Motel 10 3 30% 7 70% 2 20% 1 10% 0 0% Universal Television LLC A&E Damien 10 5 50% 5 50% 3 30% 2 20% 0 0% Damien TV Productions, Inc. A&E Unforgettable 13 3 23% 10 77% 1 8% 2 15% 0 0% Woodridge Productions, Inc. ABC American Crime 10 9 90% 1 10% 4 40% 4 40% 1 10% ABC Studios ABC Black-ish 24 18 75% 6 25% 10 42% 4 17% 4 17% FTP Productions, LLC ABC Blood & Oil 9 1 11% 8 89% 0 0% 1 11% 0 0% ABC Studios ABC Castle 22 5 23% 17 77% 0 0% 1 5% 4 18% ABC Studios ABC Catch, The 9 3 33% 6 67% 1 11% 1 11% 1 11% ABC Studios ABC Dr. Ken 21 7 33% 14 67% 5 24% 2 10% 0 0% Woodridge Productions, Inc. ABC Family, The 11 1 9% 10 91% 0 0% 1 9% 0 0% ABC Studios ABC Fresh Off the Boat Twentieth Century Fox Television, a unit of Twentieth 24 15 63% 9 38% 3 13% 9 38% 3 13% Century Fox Film Corporation ABC Galavant 10 0 0% 10 100% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% Film 49 Productions, Inc.