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By M. Patrick Graham, Kenneth G. Hoglund, Steven L. McKenzie

ISBN-10: 1850756511

ISBN-13: 9781850756514

This quantity of essays, devoted to the overdue Raymond B. Dillard, addresses the query, 'Was the Chronicler a Historian?' It contains profiles of the various types of fabric present in Chronicles, and assesses their worth for the reconstruction of the historical past of old Israel. This assortment represents the easiest of contemporary scholarship on an issue that's producing excessive dialogue in biblical research.

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1011): 38. Thiele, Mysterious Numbers, p. 84; Williamson, 1 and 2 Chronicles, p. J. De Vries, 'Chronology of the OT', IDE (1962), I, p. 587, 590-91. 39. F. ), The Way of the Sea, Shim'on— Shimron Once Again', Tel Aviv 8 (1981), pp. 149-50; cf. ),Shim'on—Shimron', Tel Aviv 3 (1976),pp. 57-69,pl. 1. 40. Thiele, Mysterious Numbers, pp. 174-76. 41. Thiele, Mysterious Numbers, pp. 174-76. 42. J. Rosenbaum, 'Hezekiah's Reform and the Deuteronomistic Tradition', HTR 72 (1979), pp. 35-36, 41-42. RAINEY The Chronicler and his Sources 47 And the messengers were passing from town to town in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and as far as Zebulun, and they were laughing at them and mocking them; however, (some) men from Asher and Manasseh and from Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

9-15]). (v. 12) So the Lord smote the Cushites before Asa and before Judah and the Cushites fled. Then Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Cushites fell and none remained alive, because they were broken before RAINEY The Chronicler and his Sources 57 the Lord and before his army, and they carried away very much spoil. Then they smote all the towns around Gerar because the fear of the Lord was upon them; so they plundered all the towns because they contained much spoil.

RAINEY The Chronicler and his Sources 33 Samuel And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? Chronicles And the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the Chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Je'do the seer concerning Jeroboam thesonofNebat? 2. 29 - Rehoboam 2. 2 Chron. 15a - Rehoboam And the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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