Portrait of the Kings David L. Porretta Encompassing everything from learning to

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It analyzes the schools' different doctrines and compares their approaches to specific philosophical topics - ontology

Portrait of the Kings David L. Porretta Encompassing everything from learning toMuch of the scholarship on the book of Kings has focused on questions of the historicity of the events described. Alison L. Joseph turns her attention instead to the literary characterization of Israel's kings. By examining the narrative techniques used in the Deuteronomistic History to portray Israel's kings, Joseph shows that the Deuteronomist in the days of the Josianic Reform constructed David as a model of adherence to the covenant, and Jeroboam,