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History, Literature And Theology In The Book Of Chronicles

by Ehud Ben Zvi

  • Hardback
  • 328 pages
  • Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.4 cm

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"History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles" is a collection of studies published in the last fifteen years. The cumulative weight of these studies leads to a new understanding of the "Book of Chronicles", its balanced and nuanced theology, historiographical approach and the way in which the book serves to reshape the social memory of its intended readership, in accordance with its own multiple viewpoints and the knowledge of the past held by its community. This volume shows that "Chronicles" communicates to its intended readership a theological worldview built around multiple, partial perspectives informing and balancing each other. Significantly, it is a worldview in which the limitations of even theologically "proper" knowledge are emphasized. For instance, in Chronicles' past similar deeds may and at times did lead to very different results. Thus, even if most of the past is presented to the readers as explainable, it also affirms that those who inhabited it could not predict the path of future events. "Chronicles" is therefore, a storiographical work that informs its readers that historical and theological knowledge does not enable prediction of future events.Further, although "Chronicles" tries to expand the "explainable" past, it poignantly construes some of the most crucial events in Israel's social memory as unexplainable in human terms. Thus, "Chronicles" communicates to its readers that some of YHWH's most influential decisions concerning Israel cannot be predicted or explained. It is against this background of human limitation in understanding causes and effects in a past (present and future) governed by YHWH and the uncertainty that it brings, that the emphasis on divinely ordained, prescriptive behaviour should be seen. The intellectual horizon of "Chronicles" was perhaps not so far from that of the interpretative frame of "Job" or "Qohelet", and of these books as a whole.
History, Literature And Theology In The Book Of Chronicles and Poets, Prophets, and Texts in Play
Poets, Prophets, and Texts in PlayHistory, Literature And Theology In The Book Of Chronicles

  • Author

    Ehud Ben Zvi

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Equinox Publishing Ltd

  • Published

    May 2006

  • Weight

    635g

  • Page Count

    328

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781845530709

  • ISBN-10

    1845530705

  • Eden Code

    1016412

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