I Chronicles 1–9 (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentary | AYBC)
Overview
Who were the Israelites? Was Israel’s first king, Saul, a hero or a disaster? Was David a gifted and accomplished leader or a murderer and a cheat? Did Solomon preside over the most glorious epoch in Israelite history or did he lead the nation into a fateful decline?
In I Chronicles 1–9, the distinguished scholar Gary Knoppers addresses these questions through a thoughtful and exacting reading of one of the last books of the Hebrew Bible. He shows that Chronicles, which contains a variety of viewpoints on the major events and people, provides a distinct perspective on much of Israel’s past, especially the monarchy. He discusses how the chronicler’s introduction to the people of Israel redefines Israel itself; explains and defends the transition from Saul to David; and shows how the Davidic-Solomonic monarchy was not only a time of incomparable achievement and glory, but also the period during which the nation’s most important public institutions—the Davidic dynasty, the Jerusalem Temple, the priests, and the Levites—took formative shape.
I Chronicles 1–9 systematically employs the Dead Sea Scrolls to reconstruct the biblical author’s text. Knoppers reveals how Chronicles is related to and creatively drawn from many earlier biblical books, and presents a fascinating look at its connections, in both compositional style and approach, to the historical writings of ancient Mesopotamia and classical Greece.
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- Offers original translations, including alternative translations, annotations, and variants
- Provides verse-by-verse commentary on the text
- Presents the reader with historical background, including analysis of authorship and dating
- Features an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature
Top Highlights
“This illustrates another one of the Chronicler’s favorite themes: the coherence between actions and effects” (Page 346)
“In this respect, the differences between the two are more telling than are the similarities” (Page 88)
“The terminus a quo is obvious, but the terminus ante quem requires some defense.130” (Page 106)
“The point is understanding the larger context in which the Chronicler worked” (Page 104)
“variety of biblically based literary works in early Judaism” (Page 129)
- Title: I Chronicles 1–9
- Author: Gary N. Knoppers
- Series: Anchor Yale Bible (AYB)
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication Date: 2004
- Pages: 544