The kings and their gods : the pathology of power

The kings and their gods : the pathology of power / Daniel Berrigan.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berrigan, Daniel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2008.
Subjects:
Bible. > O.T. > Kings > Commentaries.
Table of Contents:
  • First book of Kings
  • Who shall inherit the grand years of David? (chs. 1-4)
  • Solomon enthroned (ch. 1)
  • "Blood will have blood" (2:1-11)
  • "The wisdom of Solomon" (2:12-46)
  • Dreams and shadows of dreams (ch. 3)
  • The apotheosis of empire (ch. 4)
  • Stone upon stone, the king constructs immortality (chs. 5-9)
  • The "great pyramid" of Solomon (ch. 5)
  • The house of the Lord? (ch. 6)
  • A palace fit for a king? (ch. 7)
  • The temple dedicated : folly, fiction, obsession (ch. 8)
  • The tyrant and the convenient deity (ch. 9)
  • From Solomon to Jeroboam : kings run amok (chs. 10-13)
  • The king and the queen : wisdom compounded, unconfounded (10:1-13)
  • The great king : possessed by possessions (10:14-29)
  • Shadows over the empire (11:1-8)
  • Enemies and traitors : the decline and fall (11:9-43)
  • The seamless cloak, torn (ch. 12)
  • No strange gods before me (ch. 13)
  • Of kings and their gods : a tale of woe (chs. 14-22)
  • Jeroboam and Rehoboam : undone by idols (ch. 14)
  • A line of nonentities (chs. 15-16)
  • At long last, relief : Elijah the plainspoken (chs. 17-18)
  • Elijah and Elisha: God's chosen chooses (ch. 19)
  • King Ahab and the deity (chs. 20-21)
  • War, and yet again war (ch. 22)
  • Second book of Kings
  • Of kings and prophets : light and darkness contending (chs. 1:1-6:23)
  • Ahaziah : another king falls (ch. 1)
  • "My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its driver!" (ch. 2)
  • Elisha : a prophet to love and to loathe (chs. 3-4)
  • A virtuous duet and a dubious spirit (ch. 5)
  • A gift of unexpected mercy (6:1-23)
  • Famine and fury : war and its shadows (6:24-17:41)
  • The horrid banquet of war (ch. 6)
  • A moment's relief : the siege lifted (ch. 7)
  • Something terrible beyond telling (ch. 8)
  • The blood of kings--and queens (chs. 9-11)
  • A king's greed, a prophet's epitaph (chs. 12-13)
  • The spoils of war, continued (chs. 14, 15, 16)
  • Exile : the final tragedy (ch. 17)
  • Dawn at last : Isaiah and the last days of empire (chs. 18-25)
  • Hezekiah : king of contradiction (ch. 18)
  • Isaiah : prophet of hope against hope (ch. 19)
  • A puzzle of praise for a foolish king (ch. 20)
  • Innocent blood on royal hands (ch. 21)
  • The scroll : restored for good? (chs. 22-23)
  • Light amid the king's dark legacy (chs. 24-25).

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