ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author reviews some literary discussion of the Solomon story, and provides attention to another text-critical issue, before asking questions about the Deuteronomists. He shows that the stumbling-block in the debate between Parker and Frisch is their unreadiness to acknowledge, as Brettler does, that the author of Kings, and Chronicles too, did not just have inherited material at his disposal, but rather had to cope with the shape and tendencies of his source. The author find it significant that it is precisely over the information which is not also provided in Chronicles that the longer alternative construction accounts in the Hebrew and Greek versions of Kings most disagree. The account of Solomon which Kings and Chronicles jointly preserve opens with his vision at Gibeon after advice from his dying father, moves to arrangements with Hiram over practical support for the Temple building in Jerusalem, and then reports its construction and the making of several cultic paraphernalia.
