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By P C Beentjes

ISBN-10: 9004170448

ISBN-13: 9789004170445

ISBN-10: 9047443616

ISBN-13: 9789047443612

This monograph contributes to a greater knowing of the "Book of Chronicles". The prior 40 years have noticeable an entire transformation within the learn of the "Book of Chronicles". the previous domination of Chronicles through parallel texts within the "Books of Samuel and Kings" made method for learning the old, sociological, literary, theological, and ideological elements of Chronicles of their personal correct. This book/document is now more and more well-known as being of significant curiosity to the second one Temple interval. analyzing the ebook of Chronicles, it seems that the Chronicler is continually reworking Israel's tradition(s) right into a new theological and ideological method. during this research, recognition is, hence, paid either to precise texts, corresponding to I Chronicles 17; 21; 2 Chronicles 20; 26, and to specific relevant subject matters, equivalent to the precise functionality of Jerusalem, and the abnormal manner of the way the Chronicler offers prophets, struggle narratives, and genealogies.

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The explanation by S. Japhet relating to this verbal alteration, that the wording ‫ ﬠשה בית‬is to be considered a special idiom ‘denoting the establishing of family and progeny’ is untenable in light of 1 Chr 15:1 (‫ ;)ויﬠש־לו בתים‬S. Japhet, I & II Chronicles (OTL) London 1993, 333. 21 This distinction has not been noticed by Japhet, I & II Chronicles, 333. 22 Without going further into the scholarly debate relating to the final two verses of 2 Chronicles 36, attention must be paid to the wording of the final verse of the book (2 Chr 36,23a).

Then, in 1 Chronicles 14, he links together a number of episodes that in 2 Samuel appear prior to the report of the unsuccessful transfer of the Ark (2 Sam 5:11–25). Strikingly, these narratives have been compressed into a period of ‘three months’ (1 Chr 13:14). This brief time frame not only limits the possibility of two campaigns against the Philistines (1 Chr 14:8–12; 14:13–16), but is also insufficient to produce the large familily which the Chronicler attribute to David. It is likely, therefore, that the insertion of 1 Chronicles 14 at this particular point was done for a specific purpose.

23). It is very likely, therefore, that the Chronicler adopted this feature from Genesis 23. 33 It is quite striking too that the Chronicler makes David pay six hundred shekels of gold, whereas Abraham paid four hundred shekels of silver. According to the Mediaeval Jewish exegete Rashi, David had to pay more than Abraham did, since it was the site of the future Temple. In fact, so Rashi, ‘David paid fifty shekels of gold for each tribe of Israel’. 2. At the very moment the Chronicler reports that Solomon began to build the house of YHWH in Jerusalem (2 Chr 3:1), the author interweaves both a number of cultic sites and a number of persons which are crucial to Israel’s tradition.

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