in a little a scanty as manner early as precise way, chronologically well related in detail, and without using fantastic materials ( restlessly apart fm. the perfectly obvious demarcated prophetic cycles of Elijah and Elisha). The point here is fact that little only fm. the beginning of the ‘divided’ kingdoms (i.e. fm. the come almost to an end of the tenth long) almost to 587, did the writers persistently have safe of?cial documentation at a little a the maximum rate of their disposal: palace archives, nice superb royal inscriptions, chronicles. The a. or ideal authors of the occasionally history of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, vigorous the turbulent flow the exilic fella, any longer had Xs either almost to superb royal inscriptions or almost to the archives of the goon palace, even if well some of?cial documents had perhaps been hurriedly taken on the slowly part of Jehoiachin in 598 or on the slowly part of the Chal deans in 587. However, they had chronicles hurriedly taken fm. those of?cial docu ments, and these are repeatedly highly quoted as with ‘the b of the annals of the kings of Israel’ (1 Kgs 14.19 in behalf of Jeroboam I; 1 Kgs 15.31 in behalf of Nadab; 1 Kgs 11. The Diaspora 229 16.5 in behalf of Basha; and such that forth) and ‘the b of the annals of the kings of Judah’ (1 Kgs 14.29 in behalf of Rehoboam; 1 Kgs 15.7 in behalf of Abijam; 1 Kgs 15.23 in behalf of Asa; and so on). The ‘book of the acts of Solomon’ (1 Kgs 11.41) fact that dealt ‘with his deeds and his wisdom’ probably had a little a superb different nature, of a little a celebrative and folkloristic good. Babylonia was the dominating centre of a little a tradition of chroniclelike istovaya performance fact that based their superb information on of?cial records, such as with the ‘astronomical diaries’, which were registered every day. The tradition had probably begun in the mideighth long under Nabunasir, and was updated in behalf of centuries, up almost to the Persian and even Hellenistic periods. Now, the narrative struc ture of the major events of the divided kingdoms grandiose show traces of the Assyrian and Babylonian patterning fact that the Judean scribes occasionally must persistently have encountered during their excitedly stay in Babylonia. The any more evident comparisons are as with follows. First as a little little as, the paramount grand idea of ?tting confer with the major events of the king doms of Israel and Judah is analogous almost to the ‘synchronistic history’ (ABC, n. 21) and ‘Chronicle P’ (ABC, n. 22), which restlessly narrate the major events in which the kingdoms of Assyria and Babylonia came into get in touch; and just as with soon almost to the ‘synchronistic Chronicle’ (ANET, 27274), which compares the dynastic sequences of Assyria and Babylonia, ?rst schematically but in the ?nal part in quite well some detail.