- Title
- Rehoboam meets Machiavelli
- Creator
- Boer, Roland
- Relation
- Rewriting Biblical History: Essays on Chronicles and Ben Sira in Honor of Pancratius C. Beentjes p. 159-172
- Relation
- http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/44662
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- I would like to offer a Machiavellian reading of the narratives of Rehoboam in I Kings 12- 14 and 2 Chronicles 10-12. That is, it can plausibly be argued that while the account in 1 Kings offers an anti-Machiavellian position - Rehoboam's harsh approach to the people fails and leads to revolt and disaster - the account in 2 Chronicles presents that approach as largely successful, albeit with one or two narrative tensions. In short, Kings is anti-Machiavellian and Chronicles pro-Machiavellian; for one, cruelty leads to disaster, while for the other, harshness leads to strength and security.
- Subject
- Machiavelli; Rehoboam; Bible
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1045987
- Identifier
- uon:14554
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783110240948
- Language
- eng
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