Bibliography

Barré, L. M. (1988). The Rhetoric of Political Persuasion: The Narrative Artistry and Political Intentions of 2 Kings 9-11. Catholic Bibical Quarterly Monograph Series 20. Washington, D. C.: Catholic Biblical Association of America.

Cogan, M. and H. Tadmor (1988). II Kings. Anchor Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Strong orientation to Mesopotamian history and its biblical reflexes.

Hurowitz, V. (1992). I Have Built You an Exalted House: Temple Building in the Bible in Light of Mesopotamian and Northwest Semitic Writings. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 115. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.

Places the Solomonic temple within its ancient historical and theological context.

Long, B. (1984). 1 Kings: with an introduction to Old Testament historical literature. Forms of Old Testament Literature, 9. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

This and the following volume contain an exhaustive form-critical and literary analysis of each text unit in the books of Kings.

Long, B. (1991). 2 Kings. Forms of Old Testament Literature 10. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

Nelson, R. D. (1987). First and Second Kings. Interpretation, a Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching. Atlanta: John Knox.

Oriented to literary analysis and the theological message of the text, with particular attention to Deuteronomic connections.

Rice, Gene (1990). Nations Under God. A Commentary on the Book of 1 Kings. International Theological Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

Provides theological reflection on the relevance of Kings to the modern world.

Wiseman, D. J. (1993). 1 & 2 Kings: An Introduction and Commentary. Leicester, England; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity.

A conservative Christian reading of Kings by a leading Assyriologist.

Elijah and Elisha

Brueggemann, W. (1985). "The Prophet as a Destabilizing Presence." In The Pastor as Prophet. Edited by E. E. Shelp and R. H. Sunderland. New York: The Pilgrim. Reprinted in A Social Reading of the Old Testament. Prophetic Approaches to Israel's Communal Life, by Walter Brueggemann, edited by P. D. Miller. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1994.

Rofé, A. (1988). The Prophetical Stories. The Narratives about the Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, Their Literary Types and History. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University.