What Was Authoritative for Chronicles?

Published by Penn State University Press 2011

What Was Authoritative for Chronicles?

Edited by: Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana V. Edelman

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575066561

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The essays published here are revised versions of papers presented in 2008 and 2009 in the section devoted to Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period at the annual meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies. The various contributors explore what was authoritative for Chronicles and what authoritative might have meant for the Chronicler from different perspectives.

The volume includes chapters by Yairah Amit, Joseph Blenkinsopp, David J. Chalcraft, Philip R. Davies, David A. Glatt-Gilad, Louis Jonker, Mark Leuchter, Ingeborg Löwisch, Lynette Mitchell, Steven J. Schweitzer, Amber K. Warhurst, and the two editors, Diana V. Edelman, and Ehud Ben Zvi.

This volume will be of particular interest to scholars and students of biblical literature and all who are interested in ancient Israelite historiography, in Chronicles, in the intellectual history of Israel in the Persian/early Hellenistic period, and in issues of biblical proto-canonicity, authority, and criticism.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Ehud Ben Zvi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
One Size Does Not Fit All: Observations on the Different Ways That Chronicles Dealt with the Authoritative Literature of Its Time Ehud Ben Zvi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Judging a Book by Its Citations: Sources and Authority in Chronicles Steven J. Schweitzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chronicles as Consensus Literature David A. Glatt-Gilad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chronicles and the Definition of “Israel” Philip R. Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Ideology and Utopia in 1–2 Chronicles Joseph Blenkinsopp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Cracks in the Male Mirror: References to Women as Challenges to Patrilinear Authority in the Genealogies of Judah Ingeborg Löwisch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Araunah’s Threshing Floor: A Lesson in Shaping Historical Memory Yairah Amit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
The Chronicler and the Prophets: Who Were His Authoritative Sources? Louis Jonker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
The Chronicler’s Use of the Prophets Amber K. Warhurst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Rethinking the “Jeremiah” Doublet in Ezra–Nehemiah and Chronicles Mark Leuchter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Sociology and the Book of Chronicles Risk, Ontological Security, Moral Panics, and Types of Narrative David J. Chalcraft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Chronicles and Local Greek Histories Diana Edelman and Lynette Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Index of Scripture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Pages
- Main content: 280

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Published: June 30, 2011
ISBN: 9781575066561