What was authoritative for Chronicles?
By: edited by Ehud Ben Zvi and Diana Edelman
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781575062181
Subjects: Evidences, authority; Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Description: "The essays published here are revised versions of papers presented in 2008 and 2009 in the section devoted to Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period at the annual meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies. The various contributors explore what was authoritative for Chronicles and what authoritative might have meant for the Chronicler from different perspectives. The volume includes chapters by Yairah Amit, Joseph Blenkinsopp, David J. Chalcraft, Philip R. Davies, David A. Glatt-Gilad, Louis Jonker, Mark Leuchter, Ingeborg Löwisch, Lynette Mitchell, Steven J. Schweitzer, Amber K. Warhurst, and the two editors, Diana V. Edelman, and Ehud Ben Zvi. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars and students of biblical literature and all who are interested in ancient Israelite historiography, in Chronicles, in the intellectual history of Israel in the Persian/early Hellenistic period, and in issues of biblical proto-canonicity, authority, and criticism." -- Back cover.
Notes: "The essays published here are revised versions of papers presented in 2008 and 2009 in the section devoted to Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period at the annual meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies"--Cover, p. 4.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: One size does not fit all : observations on the different ways that Chronicles dealt with the authoritative literature of its time / Ehud Ben Zvi; title: Judging a book by its citations : sources and authority in Chronicles / Steven J. Schweitzer; title: Chronicles as consensus literature / David A. Glatt-Gilad; title: Chronicles and the definition of "Israel" / Philip R. Davies; title: Ideology and utopia in 1-2 Chronicles / Joseph Blenkinsopp; title: Cracks in the male mirror : references to women as challenges to patrilinear authority in the genealogies of Judah / Ingeborg Löwisch; title: Araunah's threshing floor : a lesson in shaping historical memory / Yairah Amit; title: The Chronicler and the Prophets : who were his authoritative sources? / Louis Jonker; title: The Chronicler's use of the Prophets / Amber K. Warhurst; title: Rethinking the "Jeremiah" doublet in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles / Mark Leuchter; title: Sociology and the book of Chronicles : risk, ontological security, moral panics, and types of narrative / David J. Chalcraft; title: Chronicles and local Greek histories / Diana Edelman, Lynette Mitchell.