The Chronicler's History
Title | The Chronicler's History PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Noth |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567038025 |
Martin Noth's study of the Chronicler's History may not be so widely known as his celebrated Deuteronomistic History (published by JSOT Press in English translation in 1981). However, as Williamson argues in his introduction, written specially to accompany this translation, it was a most significant contribution to the study of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, and a translation of it has been long overdue. In view of the recent revival of interest in this body of literature, it is important that English-speaking readers should have first-hand access to one of the seminal studies in this field.
History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles
Title | History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles PDF eBook |
Author | Ehud Ben Zvi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2014-12-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317491440 |
History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles presents a new way of approaching this key biblical text, arguing that the Book employs both multiple viewpoints and the knowledge of the past held by its intended readership to reshape social memory and reinforce the authority of God. The Book of Chronicles communicates to its intended readership a theological worldview built around multiple, partial perspectives which inform and balance each other. This is a worldview which emphasizes the limitations of all human knowledge, even of theologically "proper" knowledge. When Chronicles presents the past as explainable it also affirms that those who inhabited it could not predict the future. And, despite expanding an "explainable" past, the Book deliberately frames some of YHWH's actions - crucial events in Israel's social memory - as unexplainable in human terms. The Book serves to rationalise divinely ordained, prescriptive behaviour through its emphasis on the impossibility of adequate human understanding of a past, present and future governed by YHWH.
The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Brad E. Kelle |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0190261161 |
"The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible offers 36 essays on the so-called "Historical Books": Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, and 1-2 Chronicles. The essays are organized around four nodes: contexts, content, approaches, and reception. Each essay takes up two questions: (1) what does the topic/area/issue have to do with the Historical Books?" and (2) how does this topic/area/issue help readers better interpret the Historical Books?" The essays engage traditional theories and newer updates to the same, and also engage the textual traditions themselves which are what give rise to compositional analyses. Many essays model approaches that move in entirely different ways altogether, however, whether those are by attending to synchronic, literary, theoretical, or reception aspects of the texts at hand. The contributions range from text-critical issues to ancient historiography, state formation and development, ancient Near Eastern contexts, society and economy, political theory, violence studies, orality, feminism, postcolonialism, and trauma theory-among others. Taken together, these essays well represent the variety of options available when it comes to gathering, assessing, and interpreting these particular biblical books"--
The Chroniclers Use of the Deuteronomistic History
Title | The Chroniclers Use of the Deuteronomistic History PDF eBook |
Author | Steven L. McKenzie |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2022-10-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004387153 |
Chronicling the Chronicler
Title | Chronicling the Chronicler PDF eBook |
Author | Paul S. Evans |
Publisher | Eisenbrauns |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 9781575062907 |
The thirteen essays in this volume are largely revised papers which were originally presented as part of the Ancient Historiography Seminar of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and they investigate particular texts of Chronicles, examine central themes, and consider future prospects for Chronicles study. The volume includes chapters by Shannon E. Baines, Ehud Ben Zvi, Mark J. Boda, Keith Bodner, Paul S. Evans, Louis Jonker, Gary N. Knoppers, Christine Mitchell, Peter J. Sabo, Steven J. Schweitzer, and John W. Wright. The essays represent many different perspectives, methodologies, and conclusions regarding the Chronicler's work and this volume will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Chronicles, ancient Israelite historiography and biblical literature in general.
Handbook on the Pentateuch
Title | Handbook on the Pentateuch PDF eBook |
Author | Victor P. Hamilton |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2005-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0801027160 |
In this introduction to the first five books of the Old Testament, Victor Hamilton moves chapter by chapter--rather than verse by verse--through the Pentateuch, examining the content, structure, and theology. Each chapter deals with a major thematic unit of the Pentateuch, and Hamilton provides useful commentary on overarching themes and connections between Old Testament texts. This second edition has been substantially revised and updated. The first edition sold over sixty thousand copies.
The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles
Title | The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles PDF eBook |
Author | Isaac Kalimi |
Publisher | Eisenbrauns |
Pages | 489 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 1575060582 |
Kalimi catalogues and categorizes the techniques by which the Israelite history in Samuel-Kings is reshaped in the biblical books of Chronicles. The chapters of this study consider the various historiographical and literary changes found in the parallel texts of Chronicles. Because about half of the material in Chronicles is available to us in other biblical sources, comparison of the literary and linguistic devices used by the Chronicler are very revealing. Kalimi considers the ways in which the Chronicler has edited the material available to him, addressing such topics as: literary-chronological proximity, historiographical revision, completions and additions, various kinds of parallelism and literary devices, and so on. A handy compendium of the ways in which the Chronicler treated his material by one of the premier scholars working in the field.