Texts > Tanakh > Former Prophets/Deuteronomistic History

Individual Books

Chronology

• The Chronological Framework of the Deuteronomistic History (PDF) - by Gershon Galil, Biblica 85 (2004) 413–421

Composition

• On Scroll-Making in Ancient Jerusalem - by Walter Brueggemann, Biblical Theology Bulletin (Spring 2003)

Miscellaneous Articles and Essays

• Disobedience in the Former Prophets
• Literature of the Middle Period - chapter 22 of Gerald Larue, Old Testament Life and Literature (1968); full text (includes a section on “The Deuteronomists”)
• The Problem with Kings: Recent Study of the Deuteronomistic History - by William M. Schniedewind, Religious Studies Review 22 (1996) 22–27
• Violent Grace: Tragedy and Transformation in the Orestia and the Deuteronomistic History - by L. Daniel Hawk, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 28.1 (2003) 73–88; abstract with full text options

Monarchy

• The Case for Kingship in Deuteronomy and the Former Prophets - by David M. Howard, Jr., Westminster Theological Journal 52 (1990) 101–115

Pedagogy

• THEO 111: Module 8 - examines the composition of the Former Prophets/Deuteronomistic History; part of a course at Australian Catholic University

Purpose

• Cui Bono?—History in the Service of Political Nationalism: The Deuteronomistic History as Political Propaganda - by Frank S. Frick, Semeia 66 (1994) 79–92

Book Reviews

• Arnold, Bill T. and H. G. M. Williamson, eds., Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (InterVarsity, 2005) - reviewed by Bruce Power, Review of Biblical Literature (2006)
• Chisholm, Robert B., Jr., Interpreting the Historical Books: An Exegetical Handbook (Kregel, 2006) - reviewed by Brian D. Russell, Review of Biblical Literature (2008)
• de Pury, Albert, Thomas Römer and Jean-Daniel Macchi, eds., Israel Constructs Its History: Deuteronomistic Historiography and Recent Research (Sheffield, 2000) - reviewed by Iain William Provan, Review of Biblical Literature (2002)
• Fox, Everett, Give Us a King! Samuel, Saul, and David: A New Translation of Samuel I and II with an Introduction and Notes - reviewed by Alviero Niccacci, Review of Biblical Literature
• Geoghegan, Jeffrey C., The Time, Place, and Purpose of the Deuteronomistic History: The Evidence of “Until This Day” (Brown Judaic Studies, 2006) - reviewed by Timothy M. Willis, Review of Biblical Literature (2008)
• Pakkala, Juha, Intolerant Monolatry in the Deuteronomistic History (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999) - reviewed by Ken Stone, Review of Biblical Literature (2002)
• Römer, Thomas, The So-Called Deuteronomistic History: A Sociological, Historical and Literary Introduction (T&T Clark, 2007) - reviewed by Ernst Axel Knauf, Review of Biblical Literature (2008)