Elia und die Monolatrie: Ein Beitrag zur religionsgeschichtlichen Rückfrage nach dem vorschriftprophetischen Jahwe-Glauben

In this book Martin Beck, former student of Hans-Christoph Schmitt, seeks "to contribute to the understanding of Israelite religion, and in particular its prohibition of foreign gods, by more diligently seeking to understand the difficult-to-access Gestalt of pre-classical prophetic Yahwism" (p. 2). He focuses on the preclassical prophetic literature of the OT (i.e., pre-Amos) because the classical material is already, in B.'s opinion, Tendenz-literature, committed to Yahweh-only. This Tendenz automatically disqualifies it from any serious examination of the actual beliefs and practices of Israel's earliest Yahwists. Since the Elijah traditions are the most readily accessible corpus of early preclassical prophetic material in the OT, B. focuses primarily on the material in Kings.