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- Title: Deuteronomy 24:5 and King Asa's Foot Disease in 1 Kings 15:23B.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 182 KB
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1 Kings 15:22-24 provides one of the few notations of royalty with a disease in the books of Kings. This summary of Asa's reign shows several classic indicators of Deuteromonistic (Dtr) redaction. These include references to a source, to the king's death and burial, and to the name of his successor. (2) Likewise, the introduction to Asa's reign earlier in the chapter (vv. 9-15) presents Asa as a praiseworthy king, in part, because he follows laws presently recorded in Deuteronomy. According to vv. 12-13, he removed temple prostitutes (cf. Deut 23:17; 1 Kgs 14:24) and an Asherah image (cf. Deut 12:3; 1 Kgs 14:23). The use of Deuteronomic standards to evaluate Asa in his introduction as well as notations of his age at his accession to the throne, his length of reign, and his mother's name suggest Dtr editorial work. As the material surrounding the notation about Asa's disease reflects common Dtr concerns, scholars have often puzzled over the comment in v. 23b, since Dtr rarely records royal diseases. While commenting on Asa's illness, Mordechai Cogan observes, "As a rule, Dtr did not note royal illnesses; the only other instance recorded in Kings concerns the leprosy of Azariah (2 Kgs 15:5), which led to his quarantine and removal from office, and Hezekiah's disease (2 Kgs 20)." (3) For some scholars, the scarcity of such notations in Dtr suggests that these notations do not help to articulate Dtr's theological or ideological positions. (4) Moreover, the fact that Dtr praises all three of the kings who have a recorded illness (Asa [1 Kgs 15:11-13]; Azariah [2 Kgs 15:3]; and Hezekiah [2 Kgs 18:3-7a]) may argue against interpreting Dtr's notations of their illnesses as divine punishments. Thus, although the early history of interpretation speculates on possible theological meanings of Asa's foot disease, contemporary scholars often prefer diagnostic to theological speculation. Recent diagnoses include gout, dropsy, gangrene, peripheral obstructive vascular disease, and prostate cancer, among others. (5)
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