King Josiah of Judah
The Lost Messiah of Israel
by Marvin A. Sweeney · February 12, 2001
The author shows how King Josiah's reform program to unify Israel and Judah around the Jerusalem temple, laid the foundation for the exilic thinkers who rescued Judaism from the obscurity of Babylonian defeat and exile.
BibleHistoryHistoriographyCriticism, interpretationKings and rulersJudaismJewsDeuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism)MessiasChristentumHistoriographieBibel