The kings and their gods : the pathology of power / Daniel Berrigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berrigan, Daniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Kings--Commentaries.

Bible.

Bible. Kings.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Physical Description:

ix, 202 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., [2008]

Contents:

First book of Kings

Who shall inherit the grand years of David? (chs. 1-4)

Solomon enthroned (ch. 1)

"Blood will have blood" (2:1-11)

"The wisdom of Solomon" (2:12-46)

Dreams and shadows of dreams (ch. 3)

The apotheosis of empire (ch. 4)

Stone upon stone, the king constructs immortality (chs. 5-9)

The "great pyramid" of Solomon (ch. 5)

The house of the Lord? (ch. 6)

A palace fit for a king? (ch. 7)

The temple dedicated : folly, fiction, obsession (ch. 8)

The tyrant and the convenient deity (ch. 9)

From Solomon to Jeroboam : kings run amok (chs. 10-13)

The king and the queen : wisdom compounded, unconfounded (10:1-13)

The great king : possessed by possessions (10:14-29)

Shadows over the empire (11:1-8)

Enemies and traitors : the decline and fall (11:9-43)

The seamless cloak, torn (ch. 12)

No strange gods before me (ch. 13)

Of kings and their gods : a tale of woe (chs. 14-22)

Jeroboam and Rehoboam : undone by idols (ch. 14)

A line of nonentities (chs. 15-16)

At long last, relief : Elijah the plainspoken (chs. 17-18)

Elijah and Elisha: God's chosen chooses (ch. 19)

King Ahab and the deity (chs. 20-21)

War, and yet again war (ch. 22)

Second book of Kings

Of kings and prophets : light and darkness contending (chs. 1:1-6:23)

Ahaziah : another king falls (ch. 1)

"My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its driver!" (ch. 2)

Elisha : a prophet to love and to loathe (chs. 3-4)

A virtuous duet and a dubious spirit (ch. 5)

A gift of unexpected mercy (6:1-23)

Famine and fury : war and its shadows (6:24-17:41)

The horrid banquet of war (ch. 6)

A moment's relief : the siege lifted (ch. 7)

Something terrible beyond telling (ch. 8)

The blood of kings

and queens (chs. 9-11)

A king's greed, a prophet's epitaph (chs. 12-13)

The spoils of war, continued (chs. 14, 15, 16)

Exile : the final tragedy (ch. 17)

Dawn at last : Isaiah and the last days of empire (chs. 18-25)

Hezekiah : king of contradiction (ch. 18)

Isaiah : prophet of hope against hope (ch. 19)

A puzzle of praise for a foolish king (ch. 20)

Innocent blood on royal hands (ch. 21)

The scroll : restored for good? (chs. 22-23)

Light amid the king's dark legacy (chs. 24-25).

ISBN:

9780802860439

0802860435

OCLC:

180989480