volume 17, issue 1, 2025, pages 1-17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsAAIS1527
Published online: 2025-06-01
Published in print: 2025-06-30

Abstract: The text of 1 Kgs 2 is transmitted in different forms thus suggesting an agitated textual history: David’s testament at the beginning of the chapter (1 Kgs 2:2-9) appears to have been omitted in one strand of the textual tradition, and two sets of “miscellanies” were added at the end (3 Kgdms 2:35a-o, 46a-k). In this paper it is argued that the omission and the additions reflect interventions by the same hand.