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Solomon, Part 1

Faith Adjacent

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King Kings Is a History for the Purpose of the Time

The narrative of kings is history like in as it has a chronological framework. The individual stories are structured into a unitary whole. Yet large portions of the narrative can no longer be considered actual history by any modern definition. King kings draws moral lessons from events, a concern far removed from that of modern history writing. It may prove more fruitful for us to read kings as a piece of theological literature, which happens to be in the form of history writing.

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