Revie w of: Vydrin A., priest. Vozniknoveniye monarkhii v Drevnem Izraile: Kommentariy na Pervuyu knigu Tsarstv [The Rise of the Monarchy in Ancient Israel: A Commentary on the First Book of Kings]. Sergiev Posad: Izd. Moskovskoy dukhovnoy akademii, 2020.

Abstract

In 2020, the publishing house of the Moscow Theological Academy published a commentary on the First Book of Kings by the candidate of theology, professor of the Department of Biblical Studies of the Moscow Theological Academy, Priest Andrey Vydrin (461 p.). It should be noted that this is the first isagogic-exegetical commentary on the First Book of Kings in Russian biblical science, after the revival of church education in the 90s. The twentieth century. The only modern Russian work close in subject to the publication of Priest Andrey Vydrin is a monograph by I. R. Tantlevsky's "King David and his Epoch in the Bible and in History" (St. Petersburg: RHGA, 2016).