Is Yahweh a divine Delilah? an intertextual reading of 1 Kings 22 in light of Jeremiah 20 and Judges 16

dc.contributor.authorMalan, Morne
dc.contributor.authorMeyer, Esias E.
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-28T06:41:56Z
dc.date.available2020-07-28T06:41:56Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIt is commonly accepted that God is loving, honest, and would not purposefully deceive us to secure a harmful result or any result for that matter. 1 Kings 22:20, 22 and Jeremiah 20:7, 10 seem to represent texts that would suggest otherwise. The first is a text wherein a prophet (Michaiah ben Imlah) states to his king that God has facilitated the deception of four hundred of his other prophets, so that he (the king) may be enticed (or deceived) into his death. The second presents us with a text in which a prophet (Jeremiah) accuses God of enticing (or deceiving) him into the vocation of prophet. Finally, another text which seems to be related to these two is Judges 16:5, whilst this text would appear to have little to do with the others at first glance, after discussing the various connect ions between all three, a relationship between them will become more plausible. In this paper a literary (and descriptive) rather than a theological (normative) approach to the texts is proposed. It will address such matters as the juxtaposition of the words יכל and פתה as well as similarities in content both narratologically and formally. In doing so, it is theorized that a greater understanding of the specific terminology will be gained. Having discerned the meaning of the terms used, it is hoped that it will provide us more insights into what is happening, and the implications thereof within each text as a literary unit within a greater whole will be gained.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentOld Testament Studiesen_ZA
dc.description.librarianpm2020en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://ojs.reformedjournals.co.za/index.php/stjen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMalan, M. & Meyer, S. 2019, 'Is Yahweh a divine Delilah? an intertextual reading of 1 Kings 22 in light of Jeremiah 20 and Judges 16', Stellenbosch Theological Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 379–398.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2413-9459 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2413-9467 (online)
dc.identifier.issn10.17570/stj.2019.v5n3.a18
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/75457
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch University, Faculty of Theologyen_ZA
dc.rights© 2019 Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, Stellenbosch. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectDivine deceiten_ZA
dc.subjectNarratologyen_ZA
dc.subjectFalse prophecyen_ZA
dc.subjectFree willen_ZA
dc.subjectIntertextualityen_ZA
dc.subjectAnalysis of biblical texts
dc.subject1 Kings 22, Jeremiah 20, and Judges 16
dc.subjectCharacterization of Yahweh
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dc.titleIs Yahweh a divine Delilah? an intertextual reading of 1 Kings 22 in light of Jeremiah 20 and Judges 16en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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