課程目的：
本課程幫助學員全面了解、認識及詮釋列王紀上下，採用文學手法及申典歷史的進路來說明列王紀的信息，既帶出神學重點，也能同時欣賞其歷史的場景與文學技巧。
課程要求：
一) 閱讀列王紀上下，並在呈交專文時報告閱讀情況。(10%)
二) 測驗：(30%)
開卷測驗，30題填充、是非題及多項選擇題，以google form在家進行，時限一小時。呈交限期：2025年6月18日(畢業班)6月24日(其他)
三) 專文：(60%)
有三個方法完成專文：
1. 選擇一個人物作研究，例如：所羅門、以利亞、以利沙、亞哈等等，並探討列王紀描述這人物時，運用了甚麼文學手法，帶出了甚麼神學信息。
2. 選擇一個神學課題作專題探討，例如：邱壇、外邦人、律法的位置、被擄神學、先知神學等等。
3. 選擇一段經文作釋經文章，例如：王上三4~15來說明所羅門得智慧的神學思想及意義。
字數：6000字(中文)，4600字(英文)，ThM：10,000字
限期：2025年6月18日(畢業班)6月24日(其他)
課程時間：(星期一下午)
3月31日：申典歷史與列王紀導引
4月7日：王上一至四章
4月14日：王上五至八章
4月28日：王上九至十一章
5月12日：王上十二至十六章
5月19日：王上十七至二十二章
5月26日：王下一至八章
6月2日：王下九至十七章
6月9日：王下十八至二十三章
6月16日：王下二十三至二十五章 + 總結
教科書：沒有
釋經書：
Brueggemann, Walter. 1 & 2 Kings. SHBC. Macon, Ga: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, 2018.
Cogan, Mordechai. 1 Kings: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. AB 10. New York: Doubleday, 2001.
De Vries, Simon J. 1 Kings. WBC 12. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2003.
Gray, John. I & II Kings: A Commentary. OTL. London: SCM, 1977.
Jones, Gwilym H. 1 and 2 Kings. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984.
Maier, Walter A. 1 Kings 1-11. Concordia Commentary. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2018.
Montgomery, James A. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Kings. ICC. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1951.
Mulder, Martin Jan. 1 Kings 1-11. Translated by John Vriend. HOTC. Leuven: Peeters, 1998.
Provan, Iain W. 1 & 2 Kings. UBCS. Downers Grove: Apollos; InterVarsity Press, 2012.
———. 1 and 2 Kings. OTG. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.
Sweeney, Marvin A. I & II Kings: A Commentary. OTL. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007.
Walsh, Jerome T. 1 Kings. BO. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press, 1996.
專題書/歷史考古研究：
Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History Of the Religion of Israel. Cambridge, Mass: HUP, 1973.
Fox, Nili S. In the Service of the King: Officialdom in Ancient Israel and Judah. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 2000.
Kang, Jung Ju. The Persuasive Portrayal of Solomon in 1 Kings 1-11. EH 23. Bern: Wien Lang, 2003.
Mettinger, Tryggve N. D. King and Messiah: The Civil and Sacral Legitimation of the Israelite Kings. CBOTS 8. Lund: LiberLaromedel/Gleerup, 1976.
———. Solomonic State Officials: A Study of the Civil Government Officials of the Israelite Monarchy. Lund: Gleerup, 1971.
Miller, J. Maxwell. “Separating the Solomon of History from the Solomon of Legend.” Pages 1–24 in The Age of Solomon – Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennim. Edited by Lowell K. Handy. SHCANE 11. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
Provan, Iain W. “Ideologies, Litearay and Critical Reflections on Recent Writing on the History of Israel.” JBL 114 (1995): 585–606.
Seibert, Eric A. Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative: A Rereading of 1 Kings 1-11. LHB/OTS 436. London: T&T Clark International, 2006.
Wiseman, Donald J. 1 and 2 Kings: An Introduction and Commentary. TOTC 9. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1993.
Wray Beal, Lissa M. 1 & 2 Kings. AOTC 9. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 2014.
申典歷史：
Campbell, Antony F., and Mark A. O’Brien. Unfolding the Deuteronomistic History. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2000.
Collins, John J. Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Third Edition: The Deuteronomistic History. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018.
Geoghegan, Jeffrey C. The Time, Place, and Purpose of the Deuteronomistic History: The Evidence of “Until This Day.” BJS 347. Providence, R.I.: Brown University, 2006.
Hoppe, Leslie J. “The Strategy of the Deuteronomistic History: A Proposal.” CBQ 79 (2017): 1–19.
McKenzie, Steven L., and M. Patrick Graham, eds. The History of Israel’s Traditions: The Heritage of Martin Noth. JSOTSS 182. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.
Nelson, Richard D. Double Redaction of the Deuteronomistic History. JSOTSS 18. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1981.
Noth, Martin. The Deuteronomistic History. JSOTSS 15. Sheffield: JSOT, 1981.
Pakkala, Juha. “Deuteronomy and 1-2 Kings in the Redaction of the Pentateuch and Former Prophets.” Pages 133–62 in Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch, Hexateuch, and the Deuteronomistic History. Edited by Konrad Schmid and Raymond F. Person. FAT 56. Mohr Siebeck, 2012.
Peterson, Brian Neil. The Authors of the Deuteronomistic History: Locating a Tradition in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014.
Römer, Thomas, and Albert de Pury. “Deuteronomistic Historiography (DH): History of Research and Debated Issues.” Pages 24–141 in Israel Constructs Its History: Deuteronomistic Historiography in Recent Research. Edited by Albert de Pury, Thomas Römer, and Jean-Daniel Macchi. JSOTSS 306. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
Weinfeld, Moshe. Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.