Anonymous Prophets and Archetypal Kings: Reading 1 Kings 13

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Paul Hedley Jones presents a coherent reading of 1 Kings 13 that is attentive to literary, historical and theological concerns. Beginning with a summary and evaluation of Karl Barths overtly theological exposition of the chapter as set out in his Church Dogmatics Jones explores how this analysis was received and critiqued by Barth's academic peers, who focused on very different questions, priorities and methods. By highlighting substantive material in the text for further investigation, Jones sheds light on a range of hermeneutical issues that support exegetical work unseen, and additionally provides a wider scope of opinion into the conversation by reviewing the work of other scholars whose methods and priorities also diverge from those of Barth and his contemporaries. After evaluating four additional in-depth readings of 1 Kings 13, Jones presents a more theoretical discussion about perceived dichotomies in biblical studies that tend to surface regularly in methodological debates. This volume culminates with Jones original exposition of the chapter, which offers an interpretation that reads 1 Kings 13 as a narrative analogy, where the figure of Josiah functions as a hermeneutical key to understanding the dynamics of the story.

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The book provides a helpful discussion of this difficult chapter with an eye to the wider methodological issues involved in biblical interpretation. * Journal for the Study of the Old Testament *

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Paul Hedley Jones is both the Principal of, and lectures in Old Testament/Hebrew and Homiletics, at Trinity College Queensland, Australia.