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ISBN: PB: 9780300139549

Yale University Press

December 2007

308 pp.

22.9x15.2 cm

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£30,00
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II Chronicles

"II Chronicles" (Volume 13 in the acclaimed "Anchor Bible Commentary" series) is a crucial book for historians of the biblical period and for students of the Bible. Like "I Chronicles", it has been both over- and undervalued. In recent years it has, certainly, suffered undue neglect. However, "II Chronicles" is to be neither accepted as a faithful narrative of the period of biblical history from Solomon to Cyrus nor dismissed as an imaginative re-creation of that history. It must be taken as an important clue to the biblical process, for here we find the Bible quoting itself – sometimes directly, sometimes in paraphrase. Jacob M. Myers has set before himself the enormous task of organizing and correlating the evidence to be found in "II Chronicles" (as well as in "I Chronicles", "Ezra", and "Nehemiah" – for which he is also the editor and translator). Meticulously, he analyzes important aspects of the Chronicler and his work – his method of composition, his conviction that to rebuild the nation of Israel one had to restore and strengthen her traditional religion, his significant post-Exilic perspective. The book also examines the vast literature on "Chronicles" to find what it yields toward a better understanding of the Chronicler and a fuller appreciation of his work. The appendices in the book provide a list of the parallels and paraphrases that relate "Chronicles" to other books of the Bible, and genealogical charts summarize the family histories to be found in "Chronicles".