1 & 2 Chronicles (Understanding the Bible Commentary | UBC)

by Louis C. Jonker

Publisher:

Baker

, 2013

Overview

Louis Jonker’s commentary on 1 and 2 Chronicles is the newest volume in the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series. This user-friendly series helps readers navigate the Bible’s sometimes-difficult terrain. These volumes offer academic research in an accessible way, breaking down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the texts’ power and meaning become clear to contemporary readers. The contributors tackle the task of interpretation using the full range of critical methodologies and practices, yet they do so as people of faith who hold the text in the highest regard. In this commentary, Jonker reads 1 and 2 Chronicles as literature that negotiates a new socioreligious identity in a period of political transition.

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Key Features

• Provides section-by-section commentary
• Contains additional study notes at the end of each chapter
• Includes suggestions for further reading and Scripture and subject indexes

Contents

Top Highlights

“first, There is no one like you, O Lord, and there is no God but you, and second, You made your” (Page 126)

“Increasingly, it was acknowledged that this book contains history-with-a-purpose” (Page 3)

“an inhabitant of the postexilic Persian province of Yehud” (Page 7)

“He was particularly interested in the Davidic dynasty, the temple in Jerusalem, its clergy, and its cult” (Page 7)

“It was also ‘the whole assembly’ who agreed to do this, because it seemed right to all the people” (Page 105)

Product Details

• Title: Understanding the Bible Commentary: 1 & 2 Chronicles
• Author: Louis C. Jonker
• Series: Understanding the Bible Commentary Series
• Publisher: Baker
• Publication Date: 2013
• Pages: 336

About Louis C. Jonker

Louis C. Jonker is professor of Old Testament at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He has researched as a fellow of the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation at the University of Tübingen on numerous occasions. In his research on Second Temple Judaic literature, he focuses on the relationship between history-writing and identity negotiation. He has edited various volumes on this topic and published extensively on the biblical books of Chronicles.