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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 the questions what was authoritative for Chronicles and what might authoritative 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. 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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What Was Authoritative for Chronicles?
What Was Authoritative for Chronicles?
Edited by
Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana Edelman
Winona Lake, Indiana Eisenbrauns 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data What was authoritative for Chronicles? / edited by Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana Edelman. p. cm. “The essays published here were delivered in preliminary form 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”—Preface. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-1-57506-218-1 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Bible. O.T. Chronicles—Evidences, authority, etc. 2. Bible. O.T. Chronicles—Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Ben Zvi, Ehud, 1951– II. Edelman, Diana Vikander, 1954– BS1345.55.W43 2011 222′.601—dc23 2011030416
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. †Ê
Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ehud Ben Zvi One Size Does Not Fit All: Observations on the Different Ways That Chronicles Dealt with the Authoritative Literature of Its Time . . . . . . . . . . 13 Ehud Ben Zvi Judging a Book by Its Citations: Sources and Authority in Chronicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Steven J. Schweitzer Chronicles as Consensus Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 David A. Glatt-Gilad Chronicles and the Definition of “Israel” . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Philip R. Davies Ideology and Utopia in 1–2 Chronicles . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Joseph Blenkinsopp Cracks in the Male Mirror: References to Women as Challenges to Patrilinear Authority in the Genealogies of Judah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Ingeborg Löwisch Araunah’s Threshing Floor: A Lesson in Shaping Historical Memory . . . . . . . . 133 Yairah Amit The Chronicler and the Prophets: Who Were His Authoritative Sources? . . . . . . . . . 145 Louis Jonker The Chronicler’s Use of the Prophets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Amber K. Warhurst v
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Rethinking the “Jeremiah” Doublet in Ezra–Nehemiah and Chronicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Mark Leuchter Sociology and the Book of Chronicles: Risk, Ontological Security, Moral Panics, and Types of Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 David J. Chalcraft Chronicles and Local Greek Histories . .