Response: Reflections on the Book of Chronicles and Second Temple Historiography

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1 Texts and Studies
7. The Genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1–9: Purposes, Forms, and the Utopian Identity of Israel 9
8. Reading the Lists: Several Recent Studies of the Chronicler’s Genealogies 29
9. Seeking Saul in Chronicles 43
10. Let the Crime Fit the Punishment: The Chronicler’s Explication of David’s “Sin” in 1 Chronicles 21 65
11. Of Jebus, Jerusalem, and Benjamin: The Chronicler’s Sondergut in 1 Chronicles 21 against the Background of the Late Persian Era in Yehud 81
12. Historia or Exegesis? Assessing the Chronicler’s Hezekiah-Sennacherib Narrative 103
13. Reading Chronicles and Reshaping the Memory of Manasseh 121
14. The Cohesiveness of 2 Chronicles 33:1–36:23 as a Literary Unit Concluding the Book of Chronicles 141
15. Part 2 Central Themes
16. “To Him You Must Listen”: The Prophetic Legislation in Deuteronomy and the Reformation of Classical Tradition in Chronicles 161
17. Divine Retribution in Herodotus and the Book of Chronicles 195
18. Gazing through the Cloud of Incense: Davidic Dynasty and Temple Community in the Chronicler’s Perspective 215
19. Toward a Sense of Balance. Remembering the Catastrophe of Monarchic Judah / (Ideological) Israel and Exile through Reading Chronicles in Late Yehud 247
20. Part 3 Future Prospects
21. Response: Reflections on the Book of Chronicles and Second Temple Historiography 269
22. Bibliography 279
23. Index of Authors 311
24. Index of Scripture 316