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OLD TESTAMENT SYNOPTIC TRADITIONS PHD-CHTH G105-C09 MA - OT 6ZR6 - Fall 2020 ClassmeetsonlineviaAvenuetoLearnandZoom:Sept14–Nov1Classmeetsface-to-faceMondayNov2:9:00am–5:30pm;TuesdayNov3:9:00am–1:00pmClasscontinuesonlineviaAvenuetoLearnandZoom:Nov4–Dec11,2020.Professor:Dr.PaulS.EvansPhone:905.525.9140x24718E-mail:[email protected] Office:236CourseDescription:• Astudyof‘Synoptic’(parallel)textsintheOldTestamentthroughaspecialfocus

onthebookofChronicles,whichlargelyparallelsSamuel–Kings,aswellasdrawingonotherbiblicaltexts.Areastobestudiedinclude:asurveyoftheChronicler’shistorywithafocusonitsdistinctivethemes;significantindividualpassagesinChronicles;theChronicler’sportrayalofDavidandtheDavidickings;thehistoryofChroniclesscholarship;comparisonswiththeDeuteronomisticHistoryandotherbiblicalparallels;andtheChronicler’spurposeandmethod.InadditiontothefocusonChronicles,othersynoptictextsintheOldTestamentwillbethefocusofseminardiscussionsandpapers.

CourseObjectives:Knowing• TohaveathoroughknowledgeofthecontentsandmessageofChronicles• TogainfamiliaritywiththestateofthefieldofresearchonChronicles• TogainanawarenessofthepresenceofvarioussynoptictextsintheOld

TestamentBeing• ToembracethecontemporaryrelevanceofChroniclesfortheChurchtoday• TogrowclosertoGodthroughcloserstudyoftheOldTestamentDoing• TobeabletodiscusstherelationofSamuel–KingstoChronicles• TobeabletointerpretChroniclesinitshistoricalcontext• TobeabletoapplythemessageofChroniclestocontemporaryaudiences

McMaster Divinity College F2020

RequiredTexts:

SaraJaphet.TheIdeologyoftheBookofChroniclesandItsPlaceinBiblicalThought.WinonaLake,Ind.:Eisenbrauns,2009.

Evans,PaulS.andTylerF.Williamseds.ChroniclingtheChronicler:TheBookofChroniclesandEarlySecondTempleHistoriography.WinonaLake:Eisenbrauns,2013.

ArticlespostedonAvenuetoLearn.

TextbookPurchase:

AllrequiredtextbooksforthisclassareavailablefromtheCollege’sbookservice,READOnBookstore,Room145,McMasterDivinityCollege.Textsmaybepurchasedonthefirstdayofclass.Foradvancepurchase,youmaycontactREADOnBookstore,5InternationalBlvd,Etobicoke,OntarioM9W6H3:phone416.620.2934;fax416.622.2308;[email protected].

CourseEvaluation

Theassignmentsandtheirweightsareasfollows:10%-ClassParticipation:Althoughthiscoursewillbemostlyonline,itisdesigned

asagraduateseminar.TheprofessorwillbeginleadingtheclasswithZoomlecturesandpostingvideos,butthemajorityoftheclasswillbestudent-ledonlinediscussionsandZoompresentations.Classroomexperienceswillbecollaborative,withbothstudentsandprofessorengagedinthelearningprocesstogether.StudentsmustparticipateconsistentlyeachweekandattendeveryZoomsessionandcomepreparedtoactivelycontributetodiscussions.Therefore,assignedreadingsandassignedresearchmustbecompletedbeforeclasstimeinorderforboththeindividualstudentandthebroaderclasstobenefit.

10%-LeadingClassDiscussion.Eachstudentwilltakeoneturnleadingtheclass

discussioninthefacetofaceportionoftheclass.Preparationforleadingthediscussionwillrequireextrareadingandindependentresearchonbehalfofthediscussionleader.Eachpresentationmusttaketheformofabriefinitialpresentationandthefacilitationoffurtherdiscussiononthetopic.


Presentationshouldbebetween20–30minutesinlengthfollowedby20minutesoftakingquestionsandfurtherdiscussion.*Presentationnotesareduebeforeclass(totheprofessorviaemail).Topicsfordiscussionarelistedbelowinthecourseschedule.

35%-ResearchPaperonChronicles:20pages.DueOct14,2020.Noextensionswillbegiven.Paperwillbesubmittedviaemailtotheprofessorwhowilldistributethemelectronicallytotheclass,whowillcomepreparedtodiscusstheirpeers’papersviaZoomonOct20andOct27.Atthebeginningofeachdiscussionstudentswillprovidea5minuteoverviewofthepapertogetdiscussionsgoing.FollowingourZoomsessions,studentswillrevisetheirpaperinlightofthefeedbackreceivedandsubmitthefinalversiontotheprofessorbyOct31,2020.

Paper(30%)ForthispaperstudentswillchoosearesearchtopicortextfromthebookofChronicles.ResearchTopicmustbeapprovedbyyourprofessor.Reviews(5%):Eachstudentwillwriteatwo-pagereviewoftheirfellowstudents’papersandemailthemtotheprofessorbeforethedateonwhichthepaperswillbepresentedanddiscussed,andthentothestudentwhowrotethepaper(s)aftertheZoomdiscussionofthepaperunderreview.

45%-ResearchonChosenSynopticText.25pages.Studentsmaychooseanysynoptictext(fromChroniclesorelsewhere)fromtheOldTestamentonwhichtofocusforthispaper.StudentswillwriteacompletedraftofthepaperbyNov21,2020andsubmitthepaperelectronicallytotheprofessorwhowilldistributethepaperelectronicallytostudents.

Presentation(5%)Eachstudentwillpresenttheirpaper(a20–30minuteversion)totherestoftheclassasynchronouslyinoneofthefollowingformats:i.Videopresentation(postedtoYouTubeorVimeo).StudentswillsendlinktothevideotoprofessorwhowilluploadittoAvenuetoLearnfortherestofthestudentstoviewandhearii.Digitalpresentation(PowerPoint,Keynote,Prezi,GoogleSlidesetc.)withaudiorecordedsenttoprofessorwhowilluploadittoAvenuetoLearnfortherestofthestudentstoviewandhear*DigitalpresentationsmustbeavailabletobeviewedNov26.Afterviewingtheirpeers’digitalpresentations,theclasswilldiscussviaZoommeetingDecember1.Reviews(5%):Eachstudentwillwriteatwo-pagereviewoftheirfellowstudents’draftpapersandoffercriticalfeedbackviaemailbyDec5,2020.


ThiswillbeemailedtoboththestudentandtheprofessorPaper(35%)StudentswillthenrevisetheirpaperinlightofthefeedbackreceivedandsubmitthefinalversiontotheprofessorbyDec11,2020.ResearchTopicmustbeapprovedbyyourprofessor.

CollegeStyleforSubmissionofWrittenWork

Allstylisticconsiderations(includingbutnotlimitedtoquestionsofformatting,footnotes,andbibliographicreferences)mustconformtotheMcMasterDivinityCollegeStyleGuidelinesforEssaysandTheseshttp://mcmasterdivinity.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/mdcstyleguide.pdfFailuretoobserveappropriateformwillresultingradereductions.Allpaperstobesubmittedinelectronicformatonly(apdffile)—nohardcopies!Emailtopevans@mcmaster.ca.Includeyourlastnameinthefilenameofyourattachment(e.g.,evans.researchpaper.pdf).Toavoidlatemarkspapersmustbereceivedby11:59pmonwhichtheyaredue.Lateassignmentsreceivenocriticalfeedback.

Policyconcerninglatepapers

Extensionsforpaperswillnotbegivenexceptinveryexceptionalcircumstances.(seriousillness,familycrises,etc.).Busy-ness,computerproblemsetc.arenotlegitimatereasonstograntextensionsandintheinterestsoffairnessanyrequestforextensionswilltakeintoaccounttheentireclass.Lateassignmentswillbedockedattherateof2%perdayforthefirst7days(includingweekends)and4%perdayafterthat.Allassignmentsmustbereceivedbythelastdayofclass(June1)inordertoavoidafailinggradeintheclass.Lateassignmentsreceivenocriticalfeedback.

AcademicHonesty:

Academicdishonestyisaseriousoffencethatmaytakeanynumberofforms,includingplagiarism,thesubmissionofworkthatisnotone’sownorforwhichpreviouscredithasbeenobtained,and/orunauthorizedcollaborationwithotherstudents.Academicdishonestycanresultinsevereconsequences,e.g.,failureoftheassignment,failureofthecourse,anotationonone’sacademictranscript,and/orsuspensionorexpulsionfromtheCollege.Studentsareresponsibleforunderstandingwhatconstitutesacademicdishonesty.PleaserefertotheDivinityCollegeStatementonAcademicHonesty~https://mcmasterdivinity.ca/rules-regulations/


CourseScheduleDate A2LandZoomClassroom

ExperiencesFacetoFaceMeetings

MainSynopticText

Readingsdue

Assignmentdue

Sept14

InitialZoommeeting:IntroductionsandLectureA. Introduction-SynopticsB. ChroniclesinPast

Research

Sept20–26

DiscussionofarticlesonAvenuetoLearn-TheSynopticProblem:-Chr’srelationshiptoothertexts

2Samuel6/1Chronicles15(transferofArkto

Jerusalem)

• Cross,FrankMoore.“AReconsiderationoftheJudeanRestoration.”JBL94(1975)1–18.

• Lemke,W.“TheSynopticProblemintheChronicler'sHistory.”HTR58(1965)349–63.

• McKenzie,StevenL.“TheChroniclerasRedactor,”Pages70–90ininTheChroniclerasAuthor.Ed.M.PatrickGrahamandStevenL.McKenzie.JSOTSup263.Sheffield:SheffieldAcademicPress,1999.

• Auld,A.Graeme.“WhatWastheMainSourceoftheBooksofChronicles?”Pages91–135inTheChroniclerasAuthor.Ed.M.PatrickGrahamandStevenL.McKenzie.JSOTSup263.Sheffield:SheffieldAcademicPress,1999.

*2pagereviewofreadings(withcomments&questions)tobepostedonA2LbyMonday11:59pm)

Sept27–Oct3

DiscussionofarticlesonAvenuetoLearn-HistoricityofChronicles

• BenZvi,Ehud.“TheChroniclerasHistorian:BuildingTexts,”Pages132–149inTheChroniclerasHistorian.Ed.MattPatrickGraham,etal.JSOTSup,238.Sheffield:SheffieldAcademicPress,1997.

• Knoppers,GaryN.“HistoryandHistoriography:TheRoyalReforms,”Pages178–203inTheChroniclerasHistorian.Ed.MattPatrickGraham,etal.JSOTSup,238.Sheffield:SheffieldAcademicPress,1997.

• Klein,RalphW.“HowManyinaThousand?”Pages270–282inTheChroniclerasHistorian.Ed.MPatrickGraham,etal.JSOTSup,238.Sheffield:SheffieldAcademic,1997.


Oct4–10

DiscussionofarticlesonAvenuetoLearn-Genealogies

2Sam17:25/1Chr2:161Chr10–11/1Sam31–2Sam5(DeathofSaulandCoronationofDavid)

Genealogies• Bodner,Keith.“ReadingtheLists:SeveralRecent

StudiesoftheChronicler'sGenealogies.”Pages29–41inChroniclingtheChronicler.

• Schweitzer,StevenJames.“TheGenealogiesof1Chronicles1–9:Purposes,Forms,andtheUtopianIdentityofIsrael.”inChroniclingtheChronicler

• Evans,PaulS.“AllintheFamilyofDavid:TheChronicler’sChangefromtheAmmonite(2Sam.17:25)totheDavidicZeruiah(1Chr2:16),”inCommunity:BiblicalandTheologicalReflectionsinHonourofAugustH.Konkel,ed.RickWadholm,Jr.(McMasterDivinityCollegePress,forthcoming).

DeathofSaul• Zalewski,Saul.“Thepurposeofthestoryofthedeathof

Saulin1Chronicles10.”VetusTestamentum39(1989)449–467.

• Jonker,LouisC.“RevisitingtheSaulNarrativeinChronicles:InteractingwiththePersianImperialContext?”OldTestamentEssays23(2010)283–305.


Oct11–17

DiscussionofarticlesonAvenuetoLearn

1Chr21/2Sam24(theCensusnarrative)

• Wright,JohnW.“TheInnocenceofDavidin1Chronicles21.”JSOT60(1993)87–105.

• Knoppers,GaryN.“ImagesofDavidinEarlyJudaism:DavidasRepentantSinnerinChronicles.”Biblica76(1995)449–470.

• Evans,Paul.“DivineIntermediariesin1Chronicles21:AnOverlookedAspectoftheChronicler'sTheology.”Biblica85(2004)545–558.�

• Evans,Paul.“LettheCrimeFitthePunishment:TheChronicler’sExplicationofDavid’s‘Sin’in1Chronicles21.”Pages65–80inChroniclingtheChronicler.

*2pagereviewofreadings(withcomments&questions)tobepostedonA2LbyMonday11:59pm)**ChroniclesResearchPaperdueOctober14


Oct18–24

ZoomMeeting–Oct20DiscussionofSeminarpapersonChronicles

• Readpeer’sseminarpapersintimetodiscussOct20. *2pagereviewofpeer’spaperstobepostedonA2LbyMonday11:59pm)

Oct25–31

ZoomMeeting–Oct27DiscussionofSeminarpapersonChronicles

• Readpeer’sseminarpapersintimetodiscussOct27. **2pagereviewofpeer’spaperstobepostedonA2LbyMonday11:59pm)*FinalversionofChroniclespaperdueOct31

Nov2–3

Studentledpresentationsandclassdiscussion

§Tino,Jozef.KingandTempleinChronicles.ForschungenZurReligionUndLiteraturDesAltenUndNeuenTestaments.Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht,2010.• Evans,PaulS.“TheFunctionoftheChronicler’sTemple

DespoliationNoticesinLightofImperialRealitiesinYehud.”JBL129(2010)31–47.

• Knoppers,GaryN.“TreasuresWonandLost:Royal(Mis)appropriationsinKingsandChronicles.”Pages181–208inTheChroniclerasAuthor.EditedbyM.PatrickGrahamandStevenL.McKenzie.Sheffield:SheffieldAcademic1999.

• Smelik,KlaasA.D.“TheRepresentationofKingAhazin2Kings16and2Chronicles28.”Pages143–185inIntertextualityinUgaritandIsrael.Leiden:Brill,1998.

• Evans,PaulS.“ProphecyInfluencingHistory:DialogismintheChronicler’sAhazNarrative.”Pages143–165inProphetsandProphecyinAncientIsraeliteHistoriography.Ed.MarkJBodaandLissaWray-Beal.WinonaLake:Eisenbrauns,2013.


Nov8–14


2Chr28/2Kgs16/Isa7(Ahaz)

• Moriarty,FrederickL.“Chronicler'saccountofHezekiah'sreform.”CatholicBiblicalQuarterly27(1965)399–406.

• Knoppers,GaryN.“AReunitedKingdominChronicles?”Proceedings(GrandRapids,Mich.)9(1989)74–88.

• Throntveit,MarkA.“HezekiahintheBooksofChronicles.”SocietyofBiblicalLiteratureSeminarPapers(1988)302–311.

• Evans,PaulS.“HistoriaorExegesis?AssessingtheChronicler’sHezekiah–SennacheribNarrative.”Pages103–120inChroniclingtheChronicler.


Nov15–21


2Chr29–32/2Kgs18–20(Hezekiah)

• Abadie,Philippe.“FromtheImpiousManasseh(2Kings21)totheConvertManasseh(2Chronicles33):TheologicalRewritingbytheChronicler.”Pages89–104inChroniclerasTheologian.London/NewYork:T&TClark,2003.

• BenZvi,Ehud.“ReadingChroniclesandReshapingtheMemoryofManasseh”Pages121–140inChroniclingtheChronicler.Ed.PaulS.EvansandTylerF.Williams.WinonaLake:Eisenbrauns,2013.

• Kelly,Brian.“ManassehintheBooksofKingsandChronicles(2Kings21:1–18;2Chron33:1–20),”Pages131–146inWindowsintoOldTestamentHistory.Ed.V.PhilipsLong,etal.GrandRapids:Eerdmans,2002.

*2pagereviewofreadings(withcomments&questions)tobepostedonA2LbyMonday11:59pm)*ResearchPaperonChosenSynopticTextdueNov21

Nov22–28


2Chr33/2Kgs21(Manasseh)

• BenZvi,Ehud.“ObservationsonJosiah'sAccountinChroniclesandImplicationsforReconstructingtheWorldviewoftheChronicler.”Pages89–106inEssaysonAncientIsrael.Ed.YairahAmit,etal.WinonaLake,IN:Eisenbrauns,2006.

• Talshir,Zipora.“TheThreeDeathsofJosiahandtheStrataofBiblicalHistoriography.”VT46(1996)213–236.

• Mitchell,Christine.“TheIronicDeathofJosiahin2Chronicles.”CatholicBiblicalQuarterly68(2006)421–435.

*2pagereviewofreadings(withcomments&questions)tobepostedonA2LbyMonday11:59pm)*DigitalPresentationofresearchdueNov26


*DraftofPaperonSynopticTextdueNov30

Nov29–Dec5

ZoomMeeting–Dec1discussionofPeers’DigitalPresentations

2Chr34–35/2Kgs22–23(Josiah)

• Watchpeers’digitalpresentationsonchosensynoptictextbeforeZoommeetingonDec1

• Readdraftsofpeers’papersandwritereviewbyDec5

*PeerreviewofresearchpapersdueDec5

Dec6-11

ZoomMeeting–Dec7-Message/PurposeoftheChronicler

• C.Begg,“‘SeekingYahweh’andthePurposeoftheChronicles,”LouvainStudies9(1982)128–42.

• R.Braun,“TheMessageofChronicles:Rally'RoundtheTemple,”ConcordiaTheologicalMonthly42(1971)502–14.

• Schniedewind,WilliamN.“TheChroniclerasanInterpreterofScripture.”Pages158–180inTheChroniclerasAuthor.EditedbyMattPatrickGrahamandStevenL.McKenzie.JSOTSup,263.Sheffield,England:SheffieldAcademic,1999.

• Talshir,Zippora.“SeveralCanon-RelatedConceptsOriginatinginChronicles.”ZAW113(2001)387–403.

• VanSeters,John.“CreativeImitationintheHebrewBible.”StudiesinReligion29(2000)392–409.

*2pagereviewofreadings(withcomments&questions)tobepostedonA2LbyMonday11:59pm)*FinalPaperonSynopticTextdueDec11

GenderInclusivelanguage:

McMasterDivinityCollegeusesinclusivelanguageforhumanbeingsinworshipservices,studentwrittenmaterials,andallitspublications.ItisexpectedthatinclusivelanguagewillbeusedinchapelservicesandallMDCassignments.Inreferencetobiblicaltexts,theintegrityoftheoriginalexpressionsandthenamesofGodshouldberespected,butyouwillneedtousegender-inclusivelanguageforhumans,andyouwillneedtoquotefromagender-inclusiveversionsuchasthefollowing:NRSV(1989),NCV(1991),TEV/GNB/GNT(1992),CEV(1995),NLT(1996),TNIV(2005),andtheCommonEnglishBible(CEB2011).

DisclaimerThissyllabusisthepropertyoftheinstructorandispreparedwithcurrentlyavailableinformation.Theinstructorreservestherighttomakechangesandrevisionsuptoandincludingthefirstdayofclass.

Studentsareadvisedtoretainthissyllabusfortheirrecords.


ResearchPaperEvaluationName:____________________________Topic:I.Thenextitemsareratedaccordingtothisscale:1=inadequate;2=adequate;3=good;4=verygood;5=superior.

Bibliographicconsciousness 12345 RangeandUseofSources 12345 ClarityinDefiningIssues 12345 StrengthofArgument 12345 AwarenessofExegeticalIssues 12345 AccuracyofDataandAssertions 12345 Analysis/CriticalThinking 12345 Introduction(ThesisStatement/ClearIssue) 12345 DevelopmentofThesis(focus) 12345 LiteraryStyle(awkward,wordy,repetitive) 12345 Organization/coherenceofideas 12345

Grammar/Spelling 12345 §Note:thisisasimpleevaluationtooltoassistinpaperassessment.Thecategoriesarenotweightedequally,andthusarenotaddedtogetheroraveragedtocalculateyourgrade.II.Thefollowingneedattentionifsoindicated□Useinclusivelanguage □Thepaperistoolong/tooshort□Writeaunifiedessay □Edityourpapermorethoroughly□Linespacing,Fontsize,Margins,Pagenumbersetc.needattention

□Thepaperneedsbalance□FollowMDCStyleguide

□Citeprimaryresourcescorrectly/consistently(e.g.,Gen1:26;Gen1;etc.)

□Citesecondaryresourcescorrectly/consistently

III.Comments


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247–259inIntheShelterofElyon:EssaysonAncientPalestinianLifeandLiteratureinHonorofG.W.Ahlstrom.EditedbyW.BoydBarrickandJohnR.Spencer.JSOTSup,31.Sheffield:JSOTPress,1984.

Allen,LeslieC.TheGreekChronicles:TheRelationoftheSeptuagintofIandIIChroniclestotheMassoreticText.2vols.SupplementstoVetusTestamentum25,27.Leiden:Brill,1974.

Auld,A.Graeme.KingsWithoutPrivilege:DavidandMosesintheStoryoftheBible'sKings.Edinburgh:T&TClark,1994.

________.“WhatWastheMainSourceoftheBooksofChronicles?”Pages91–135inTheChroniclerasAuthor.EditedbyM.PatrickGrahamandStevenL.McKenzie.JSOTSup263.Sheffield:SheffieldAcademicPress,1999.

Balentine,SamuelE.“'YouCan'tPrayaLie':TruthandFictioninthePrayersofChronicles,”Pages246–267inTheChroniclerasHistorian.EditedbyMattPatrickGraham,KennethG.Hoglund,andStevenL.McKenzie.JSOTSup,238.Sheffield,England:SheffieldAcademicPress,1997.

BenZvi,Ehud.“Theauthorityof1–2ChroniclesinthelateSecondTempleperiod.”JournalfortheStudyofthePseudepigrapha,3(1988)59–88.

________.“WhentheForeignMonarchSpeaks,”Pages209–228inTheChroniclerasAuthor.EditedbyM.PatrickGrahamandStevenL.McKenzie.JSOTSup263.Sheffield:SheffieldAcademicPress,1999.

________.“TheChroniclerasHistorian:BuildingTexts,”Pages132–149inTheChroniclerasHistorian.EditedbyMattPatrickGraham,KennethG.Hoglund,andStevenL.McKenzie.JSOTSup,238Sheffield,England:SheffieldAcademicPress,1997.

________.“AGatewaytotheChronicler'sTeaching:TheAccountoftheReignofAhazin2Chr28,1–27.”ScandinavianJournaloftheOldTestament7(1993)216–249.

________.“ObservationsonJosiah'sAccountinChroniclesandImplicationsforReconstructingtheWorldviewoftheChronicler,”Pages89–106inEssaysonAncientIsrael.EditedbyYairahAmit,EhudBenZvi,IsraelFinkelstein,andOdedLipschits.WinonaLake,IN:Eisenbrauns,2006.

________.“ASenseofProportion:AnAspectoftheTheologyoftheChronicler.”SJOT9(1995)37–51.


Braun,RoddyL.“1Chronicles1–9andtheReconstructionoftheHistoryofIsrael:ThoughtsontheUseofGenealogicalDatainChroniclesintheReconstructionoftheHistoryofIsrael.”Pages92–106inTheChroniclerasHistorian.EditedbyMattPatrickGraham,KennethG.Hoglund,andStevenL.McKenzie.JSOTSup,238.Sheffield,England:SheffieldAcademicPress,1997.

________.1Chronicles.WordBiblicalCommentary14.Waco,Tex:WordBooks,1986.

Curtis,E.L.andA.A.Madsen.TheBooksofChronicles.InternationalCriticalCommentary.Edinburgh:T&TClark,1910.

DeVries,SimonJ.“MosesandDavidascultfoundersinChronicles.”JournalofBiblicalLiterature107(1988)619–639.

________.1and2Chronicles.FormsoftheOldTestamentLiterature11.GrandRapids,Mich.:Eerdmans,1989.

Dillard,RaymondB.2Chronicles.WordBiblicalCommentary15.Waco,Texas:Word,1987.

Duke,RodneyK.“ARhetoricalApproachtoAppreciatingtheBooksofChronicles,”Pages100–135inTheChroniclerasAuthor.EditedbyM.PatrickGrahamandStevenL.McKenzie.JSOTSup263.Sheffield:SheffieldAcademicPress,1999.

Dyck,JonathanE.TheTheocraticIdeologyoftheChronicler.BiblicalInterpretation,33.Leiden;Boston:Brill,1998.

Evans,PaulS.“DivineIntermediariesin1Chronicles21:AnOverlookedAspectoftheChronicler’sTheology.”Biblica85(2004)545–558.

________.“TheFunctionoftheChronicler’sTempleDespoliationNoticesinLightofImperialRealitiesinYehud.”JournalofBiblicalLiterature129(2010)31–47.

________.“ProphecyInfluencingHistory:DialogismintheChronicler’sAhazNarrative.”Pages143–65inProphetsandProphecyinAncientIsraeliteHistoriography.EditedbyMarkJBodaandLissaWray-Beal.WinonaLake:Eisenbrauns,2013.

________.“LettheCrimeFitthePunishment:TheChronicler’sExplicationofDavid’s‘Sin’in1Chronicles21.”Pages65–80inChroniclingtheChronicler:TheBookofChroniclesandEarlySecondTempleHistoriography.EditedbyPaulS.EvansandTylerF.Williams.WinonaLake:Eisenbrauns,2013.

________.“HistoriaorExegesis?AssessingtheChronicler’sHezekiah-SennacheribNarrative.”Pages103–120inChroniclingtheChronicler:TheBookofChroniclesandEarlySecondTempleHistoriography.EditedbyPaulS.EvansandTylerF.Williams.WinonaLake:Eisenbrauns,2013.


________.“CreatingaNew“GreatDivide”:TheExoticizationofAncientCultureinSomeRecentApplicationsofOralityStudiestotheBible.”JournalofBiblicalLiterature136(2017)749–764.

________.“AllintheFamilyofDavid:TheChronicler’sChangefromtheAmmonite(2Sam.17:25)totheDavidicZeruiah(1Chr2:16),”inCommunity:BiblicalandTheologicalReflectionsinHonourofAugustH.Konkel,ed.RickWadholm,Jr.(McMasterDivinityCollegePress,forthcoming).

Evans,PaulS.,andTylerF.Williams,eds.ChroniclingtheChronicler:TheBookofChroniclesandEarlySecondTempleHistoriography.WinonaLake:Eisenbrauns,2013.

Freedman,DavidNoel.“TheChronicler'sPurpose.”CatholicBiblicalQuarterly23(1961)436–442.

Gelston,Anthony.“TheEndofChronicles.”ScandinavianJournaloftheOldTestament10(1996)53–59.

Graham,MattPatrick,andStevenL.McKenzie.TheChroniclerasAuthor:StudiesinTextandTexture.JSOTSup,263.Sheffield,England:SheffieldAcademicPress,1999.

Japhet,Sara.“TheSupposedCommonAuthorshipofChroniclesandEzra-NehemiahInvestigatedAnew.”VetusTestamentum18(1968)332–72.

Japhet,Sara.“ConquestandSettlementinChronicles.”JournalofBiblicalLiterature98(1979)205–215.

________.TheIdeologyoftheBookofChroniclesanditsPlaceinBiblicalThought.BeitrèagezurErforschungdesAltenTestamentsunddesantikenJudentums.Bd.9.FrankfurtamMain;NewYork:P.Lang,1997.

________.TheIdeologyoftheBookofChroniclesanditsPlaceinBiblicalThought.WinonaLake,Ind.:Eisenbrauns,2009.

________.“TheHistoricalReliabilityofChronicles:TheHistoryoftheProblemandItsPlaceinBiblicalResearch,”Pages117–136inFromtheRiversofBabylontotheHighlandsofJudah:CollectedStudiesontheRestorationPeriod.WinonaLake,Indiana:Eisenbrauns,2006.

Johnstone,William,1and2Chronicles.2vols.JSOTSup,253–254.Sheffield,England:SheffieldAcademicPress,1997.

Jones,GwilymH.1&2Chronicles.OldTestamentguides.Sheffield,England:PublishedbyJSOTPressfortheSocietyforOldTestamentStudy,1993.

Jonker,LouisC.ReflectionsofKingJosiahinChronicles:latestagesoftheJosiahreceptioninIIChr.34f.TextpragmatischeStudienzurLiteratur-undKulturgeschichteder


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Kalimi,Isaac,AnAncientIsraeliteHistorian:StudiesintheChronicler,HisTime,PlaceandWriting.StudiaSemiticaNeerlandica,46.Assen:VanGorcum,2005.

________.TheReshapingofAncientIsraeliteHistoryinChronicles.WinonaLake,Ind.:Eisenbrauns,2005.

________.“TheDateoftheBookChronicles,”Pages347–71inGod'sWordforOurWorld:VolumeI-BiblicalStudiesinHonorofSimonJohnDeVries.EditedbyD.L.EllensEd.J.H.Ellens,R.P.KnierimandI.Kalimi.JSOTSup.London\NewYork:T&TClark,2004.

________.“WastheChronicleraHistorian?,”Pages73–89inTheChroniclerasHistorian.EditedbyMattPatrickGraham,KennethG.Hoglund,andStevenL.McKenzie.JSOTSup,238.Sheffield,England:SheffieldAcademicPress,1997.

Klein,RalphW.1Chronicles:ACommentary.Hermeneia.Minneapolis:Fortress,2006.

Kleinig,JohnW.TheLord'sSong:TheBasis,FunctionandSignificanceofChoralMusicinChronicles.JSOTSup,156.Sheffield,England:JSOTPress,1993.

Knoppers,GaryN.IChronicles.2vols.AnchorBible,12,12a.NewYork:Doubleday,2004.

________.“‘ToHimYouMustListen’:ThePropheticLegislationinDeuteronomyandtheReformationofClassicalTraditioninChronicles.”Pages161–194inChroniclingtheChronicler:TheBookofChroniclesandEarlySecondTempleHistoriographyEditedbyPaulS.EvansandTylerF.Williams.WinonaLake:Eisenbrauns,2013.

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