Abstract
Because of its narrative-rhetorical character the Book of Kings is composed not as a history in modern sense, but as a text to read in such a way as to manifest its power to make deep impact on its readers. The hermeneutics of the end of history puts the question, what kind of events launch cause-effect chain which culminates in this end. Applied to the Book of Kings it shows a failure of a project to create a religious community in terms of political institution of monarchy. After the Babylonian exile Jewish religion has turned out to be separated from any political framework. In its narrative shape it moved from a vernacular religion into the specific religion of diaspora.
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