The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles / / Isaac Kalimi.

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• VerfasserIn: Kalimi, Isaac,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.)

This book was awarded the 2006 R. B. Y. Scott award, which is awarded annually by the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies in recognition of an outstanding book in the areas of Hebrew Bible and/or the Ancient Near East written by a member of the CSBS. Kalimi catalogues and categorizes the techniques by which the Israelite history in Samuel-Kings is reshaped in the biblical books of Chronicles. The chapters of this study consider the various historiographical and literary changes found in the parallel texts of Chronicles. Because about half of the material in Chronicles is available to us in other biblical sources, comparison of the literary and linguistic devices used by the Chronicler is very revealing. Kalimi considers the ways in which the Chronicler has edited the material available to him, addressing such topics as: literary-chronological proximity, historiographical revision, completions and additions, various kinds of parallelism and literary devices, and so on. A handy compendium of the ways in which the Chronicler treated his material by one of the premier scholars working in the field.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the Paperback Reprint -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Literary-Chronological Proximity -- Chapter 2. Historiographical Revision -- Chapter 3. Completions and Additions -- Chapter 4. Omissions -- Chapter 5. Given Name - Equivalent Name Interchanges -- Chapter 6. Treatment of Problematic Texts -- Chapter 7. Harmonizations -- Chapter 8. Character Creation -- Chapter 9. "Measure for Measure" -- Chapter 10. Allusion -- Chapter 11. Chiasmus -- Chapter 12. Chiasmus between Parallel Texts -- Chapter 13. Repetitions -- Chapter 14. Inclusio -- Chapter 15. Antithesis -- Chapter 16. Simile -- Chapter 17. Key Words -- Chapter 18 Numerical Patterns -- Chapter 19. Generalization and Specification -- Chapter 20. Inconsistency, Disharmony, and Historical Mistakes -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Indexes