LE3 .A278 2012

2012

Wooden, Glenn

Acadia University

Master of Arts

Masters

Theology

Acadia Divinity College

The book of Chronicles was, for a long time, overlooked by many scholars. Some propose that this neglect may have stemmed from an understanding of Chronicles as containing only things that were left out of prior historical accounts, making Chronicles essentially secondary literature.1 This idea comes from an understanding of the book that may have been derived from its name in the LXX, Παραλειπόμενα (“the things omitted or passed over”).2 However, in the last couple decades it has become more common for scholars to work more extensively with Chronicles. Recent work done on Chronicles has tended to move away from an understanding of the book as being a “supplement” to the DH towards understanding Chronicles as a book of equal, independent status.3 This is not to say that Chronicles needs to be understood separately from the DH, but rather that the purpose of Chronicles was far more than to give supplemental data and that it had its own purpose apart from the DH. There has been much debate among scholars regarding how Chronicles should be understood. Some key issues frequently debated concern the time at which the book was written, who wrote it, if the author had access to the DH, and into what genre Chronicles falls.

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