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Garrett Galvin provides a case study of five successors of the legendary King David-Jeroboam, Ahab, Hezekiah, Manasseh, and Josiah. Each of these controversial kings is remembered chiefly by what the deuteronomistic history says about them. But Galvin helpfully reminds us that twentieth-century thinking often misunderstands ancient kingship and neglects sources more sympathetic to kingship, such as Chronicles and the Psalms. A stimulating and accessible reexamination of a central biblical topic. Richard Clifford, SJ, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Galvin's study of the kings, David's Successors, backs away from many of the typical notions of kingship in the Bible found in standard histories of Israel and Judah or introductions to the Old Testament. This narrative' relies heavily on the books of Samuel through Kings, the deuteronomistic history, with its highly negative view of the kings, read through the critical lens of corrupt and brutal regimes of the twentieth century (including Stalin, Hitler, and Mao). Galvin proposes a more nuanced vision of kingship' based on newer approaches to the question: social science analyses, interdisciplinary studies, and intertextual biblical interpretation. His introduction of these different methodologies demonstrates the impact of recent decades of Old Testament scholarship offering new vistas for our imagination. John Endres, SJ, Professor of Sacred Scripture, Old Testament, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University This book has two considerable virtues. On the one hand, it counterbalances the negative view of kingship that is often prevalent in biblical scholarship with a more balanced picture. On the other hand, it rightly insists that Kings, no less than Chronicles, is a stylized theological account. There is no direct access to the underlying history. John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament, Yale

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Garrett Galvin, OFM, graduated from the University of California, Irvine and joined the Franciscan Friars in 1992. He began teaching full time at the Franciscan School of Theology in 2009, which moved to Oceanside and affiliated with the University of San Diego in 2013. He published his first book, Egypt as a Place of Refuge (Mohr Siebeck), in 2011. He regularly helps at a prison and gives retreats and days of recollection.

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