What was the funerary landscape like in Jerusalem during the post-exilic period? Were there multiple locations for dead kings? We know there were monumental tombs from the late monarchy on the Mt of Olives that were visible. Did these contribute to the Chronicler's value driven imagination? 2/2

Sorry for the late response.
I don't have thoughts on the specific wording in 2 Chr 21:20 (חמדה). Most commentaries have noted that the Chronicler played around with burial notices for kings they didn't like. The question for me is what sort of knowledge was working with. 1/2

The paradox in Eshmun. is that he died at a young age without an heir. There's reason to believe his mother was responsible for his memorialization. This is why his sarcophagus has such an unusually long, extended narrative.
Probably also why we find curses here focused on progeny and lineage.
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The preceding curse in Eshmun. finds interesting parallels with the death notices in the Book of Kings, where the ideals of a proper death are inverted in the Phoen. imprecations.
/joining royal ancestors > royal burial > succeeding progeny/
I point this out in Politics of Dead Kings.
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Pretty much what you stated in the first comment (skeet?). In Phoenician & neighboring cultures, they had this way of using the past to look to the future.
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Also crazy is that the only other person to play in the Final Four & a World Series was Tim Stoddard, who went to the same high school as Lofton, but years earlier!

I gave this skeet a posthumous like, lol.

Good to see you on this new space!

Yes, good memories! Glad to see that you're doing well.

Also, my brother leads a much healthier lifestyle than I do.