The biblical story of the history of the Kingdom of Judah, as told in the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings, describes the point of view of the Jerusalem elite: what it knew, what it wanted to tell and what served its political, religious and economic interests.
In this podcast I we will try to find out what the authors of biblical history didn't tell.
First, they could not include information that they themselves didn’t know, especially regarding events from the distant past. On the other hand, they also left out things that happened out of sight and out of mind – far from Jerusalem and the borders of Judah. And here we get to the more interesting part: the biblical authors also left out and didn't tell about events that they, and also the people for whom they wrote the historica...