Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible

This volume aims to examine the literary and socio-historical relationship between the Books of Chronicles and the priestly literature in the Pentateuch and in Ezekiel. Experts across this body of literature come together to examine the connections and interactions between specific texts, ideas, and socio-historical contexts of the literary works, as well as explore broader themes in the relationship between them. --

The study of the Books of Chronicles has focused in the past mainly on its literary relationship to Historical Books such as Samuel and Kings. Less attention was paid to its possible relationships to the priestly literature. Against this backdrop, this volume aims to examine the literary and socio-historical relationship between the Books of Chronicles and the priestly literature (in the Pentateuch and in Ezekiel). Since Chronicles and Pentateuch (and also Ezekiel) studies have been regarded as separate fields of study, we invited experts from both fields in order to open a space for fruitful discussions with each other. The contributions deal with connections and interactions between specific texts, ideas, and socio-historical contexts of the literary works, as well as with broad observations of the relationship between them. --

Atonement, sacred space and ritual time: The Chronicler as reader of priestly Pentateuchal narrative / Benjamin D. Giffone -- Grundgeschichte und Chronik - Kontinuita¨t und Diskontinuita¨t in Altisraels Geschichtsschreibung / Thomas Willi -- Conversational implicatures in the Book of Chronicles / Lars Maskow -- Levites of memory in Chronicles and some considerations about historical Levites in Late-Persian Yehud / Ehud Ben Zvi -- IV Ideological Conflicts and Scribal Debates -- Genealogies as tools: The case of P and Chronicles / Joachim Schaper -- David in the role of a second Moses - The revelation of the temple-model (tabni^t) in 1 Chronicles 28 / Ju¨rg Hutzli -- The righteousness of the Levites in Chronicles and Ezekiel / Christine Mitchell -- The Levites and idolatry: A scribal debate in Ezekiel 44 and Chronicles / Jaeoung Jeon-- V Ezra-Nehemiah: Between P and Chronicles -- The Role of priests and Levites in the composition of Ezra-Nehemiah: Some points for consideration / Deordre N. Fulton -- Levites, Holiness and Late Achaemenid / Early Hellenistic literature formation: Where does Ezra-Nehemiah fit into the discourse / Louis C. Jonker.