Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah

Ian D. Wilson teaches religious studies at the University of Alberta's Augustana Campus, where he is also Associate Director of the Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life. His work has appeared in publications such as Harvard Theological Review, Vetus Testamentum, and Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, and recently he co-edited the volume History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures: A Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi.

his insights and use of memory studies deserve fuller discussion within the academy.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations 1. Ancient Judah and Its Literature: Remembering and Imagining KingshipJudean Literature and Its Sociocultural SettingJudean Literati of the Early Second Temple EraKingship Discourse among the LiteratiMemory, Remembering, Imagining: Past, Present, and Future in Society and CultureSocial Memory and Narrativity: A Good Working RelationshipMoving Forward 2. Torah and Its GuardiansThe Law of the King's Deuteronomic SettingThe Law of the King and Its InterlocutorsMoses and Joshua, Kings and Conquerors: Revising Monarchy in a Postmonarchic MilieuThe Law of the King as a Mnemonic Frame 3. Cruxes of Leadership: The Transition(s) to MonarchySetting Up SamuelThe Trouble with TransitionsGideon and Abimelech: Serious Family IssuesThe Aporia of Samuel, Dynasty, and Divine PromisesYahweh, Samuel, Saul: Rivalries of Political Identification in 1 Samuel 8-12Outcomes of Rivalry and Aporia: Kingship's Beginnings in IsraelTo the Heart of the Issue 4. Remembering/Forgetting David and Davidic KingshipDavid as Character, Plot, Narrative in Samuel-Kings and Judah's Social MemoryChronicles and Samuel-Kings: Both among the LiteratiAnd the Rest of the Story? The Potentials and Outcomes of Davidic Kingship in Solomon's NarrativeOn Book Endings, Davidic Kingship, and Judean Metanarratives 5. The Remembered Future in Prophetic LiteratureFrom Prophets and Prophecy to the Prophetic BookKing YahwehThe Hedging of DavidKing IsraelHistorical Consciousness, Metahistory, and the Prophetic Book 6. To Conclude: The Emplotments of Kingship and "Metahistoriography" in Ancient JudahThe Rhyming of Kingship: An OutlineFuture Prospects NotesReferencesIndex