Table of Contents

PART I
1: Introduction
2: Josiah and the Priests of the High places (2 Kgs 23:8a, 9)
3: Deuteronomy and the Babylonian Diaspora
4: Deuteronomy, the Prophets and Scripture
5: The Law of the King in Deuteronomy 17.14-20
6: Do not dare to set a foreigner over you : The King in Deuteronomy and the Great King
PART II
7: Story and History in the Old Testament
8: The Deuteronomistic Corpus?History or Story? A Response to John Van Seters

About the Author

Ernest Nicholson was educated at Trinity College Dublin and at Glasgow University, where he took his doctorate. He has held academic appointments at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge, and was Oriel & Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford University from 1979-90 when he was elected Provost of Oriel College. He is the author of a number of books on Old Testament subjects. He is a Fellow of the British Academy
which in 2009 was awarded him the Academy's prestigious Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies.

Reviews

we can both admire his [Nicholson's] dedication and commitment, and be grateful for the enormous contribution which he made in many ways throughout his career, a contribution brought to completion by the present volume.
*A.D.H. Mayes, Journal of Jewish Studies*