Cultic Purge in Political Concepts of Vassal Judah

KULTICKÁ OČISTA V POLITICKÝCH KONCEPCÍCH JUDSKÉHO VAZALSKÉHO STÁTU CULTIC PURGE IN POLITICAL CONCEPTS OF VASSAL JUDAH ThDr. Alena HANZOVÁ In the introduction, the author characterise his work as interdisciplinary based historical analysis of specified period of Biblical Israel and interprets relevant Old Testament texts. The author first brings the best-known approaches of researchers (M. Noth, A. Alt, FW Albright, GE Mendelhall) in archaeology and history of Israel. She introduce the so-called revisionist approach to history of Israel and presents a chronology of ancient Israel and also focuses on Israel's religion in the context of the 8th and 7th centuries BC on the territory of Israel and Judah. She examines in detail the semantically very rich phenomenon of religious cults, other part of the work explains the characteristics of the kings of Judah and offers description of the most important cult reforms and the political concepts of Judah vassal state. Finally, the author notes that "Judah despite its unquestioned vassal ties and obligations retains its distinctive cultic and religious character "