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The Elisha-Hazael Paradigm and the Kingdom of Israel The Politics of God in Ancient Syria-Palestine
By Hadi Ghantous
Copyright 2013
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study deals with the most important king of the Aramaean kingdom of Damascus, Hazael, and the impact he had on biblical literature, which goes beyond the few verses that mention him explicitly in the Book of Kings and the Book of the Twelve. The extra-biblical sources reveal that Hazael managed to create a large kingdom and to expand his authority over the whole of Syria-Palestine, including... Read more
1. Hazael's Empire in Recent Scholarship. 2. History and Bible. 3. Hazael's Empire in Archaeological Sources. 4. Hazael's Empire in West-Semitic Epigraphic Sources. 5. The Assyrian Inscriptions of Shalmaneser III. 6. The Assyrian Inscriptions of Adad-Nirari III. 7. The Eponyms. 8. Commentary of the Assyrian Sources. 9. Hazael in Extra-Biblical Sources, A Conclusion. 10. The Hazael Paradigm in the Book of Kings. 11. The Hazael Paradigm in the Book of the Twelve.
Biography
Hadi Ghantous is an ordained minister in the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon and an instructor of Old Testament at the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, Lebanon.
