Josiah's Reform and the Dynamics of Defilement

Israelite Rites of Violence and the Making of a Biblical Text

• Author(s): Lauren A. S. Monroe,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 216
• ISBN_10: 0199913218
  ISBN_13: 9780199913213
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Judaism / History , Religion / Judaism / Sacred Writings ,

Description:... Lauren Monroe argues that the use of cultic and ritual language in the account of the Judean King Josiah's reforms in 2 Kings 22-23 is key to understanding the history of the text's composition, and illuminates the essential, interrelated processes of textual growth and identity construction in ancient Israel.