Israel in the Books of Chronicles by H. G. M. Williamson

By H. G. M. Williamson

This publication analyses a miles ignored writer's contribution to the talk inside Judaism within the post-exilic interval approximately who may legitimately be integrated in the reconstituted Jerusalem group, and significantly the Chronicler's perspective to the prestige of the Samaritan sect. it's been virtually universally approved that Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah are all components of a unmarried paintings, and so the relatively 'exclusive' perspective of Ezra-Nehemiah has been learn again into Chronicles. Many think that the Chronicles meant to reject the Samaritan declare to inclusion. Dr Williamson demanding situations either the idea of solidarity of authorship and the attribution of an unique perspective to the Chronicler, delivering facts to help the case for separate authorship, and analyzing Chronicles in its personal correct. A examine of using the observe 'Israel' and an research of the narrative constitution together bring about the belief that the Chronicler reacted opposed to the over-exclusive attitudes of a few of his contemporaries, and sought for the reunion of 'all Israel' round Jerusalem and its temple. This research will curiosity either outdated testomony students and scholars of Jewish background and tradition.

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As Torrey postulates. 2 Par. 2 By contrast, it is to be observed that 1 Esdras 1: 2if. is a quite different case. First, it is the only significant addition to the narrative of 2 Chr. 35-6 which the book contains. Secondly, it is not a 'natural' addition from a parallel text, but one composed from a number of elements extracted from originally quite different contexts. , we feel justified in examining it for any possible light it may shed on the problem of 1 Esdras as a whole. (3) 1 Esdras 1: 2if.

Iii. 2 L. Zunz: Diegottesdienstlichen Vortrdge, pp. 19-30. 3 E. Bertheau, pp. xv-xxiii. 4 ILOT, pp. 535-4O. 5 C. C. Torrey: Composition. 6 F. Brown: 'Chronicles, I. '. 7 CM, pp. 27-36. Reference should also be made here to the influential work of A. S. Kapelrud: The Question of Authorship in the Ezra-Narrative. Kapel- rud's main purpose, to establish uniformity of style in the Ezra narrative, does not, of course, affect our present discussion. -Neh. were from the Chronicler (cf. pp. 22 and 95), which begs the whole question.

St J. Thackeray: 'Esdras, First Book of, p. 759. Less convincing explanations are offered by C. G. Tuland: 'Josephus, Antiquities, Book xi', p. 2 181. N. G. Cohen: 'Josephus and Scripture', p. 319. I am grateful to Prof. I. L. Seeligmann for directing my attention to the works of M. Braun for parallels to this type of literary activity by Hellenistic 3 writers; cf. History and Romance and Griechischer Roman und hellenistische Geschichtsschreibung. 24 The Evidence of the Greek Versions Quite naturally, having followed i Esdras through to its conclusion, he retraces his narrative back to Neh.

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