The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles Isaac Kalimi

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ḳalimi, Yitsḥaḳ 1952- Author.

Standardized Title:

Zur Geschichtsschreibung des Chronisten. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Chronicles--Historiography.

Bible.

Bible. Chronicles--Language, style.

Bible. Chronicles--Comparative studies.

Bible. Samuel--Comparative studies.

Bible. Kings--Comparative studies.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (489 p.)

Edition:

Paperback repr.

Place of Publication:

Eisenbrauns Winona Lake, Ind. 2012

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Literary-chronological proximity

Historiographical revision

Completions and additions

Omissions

Given name : equivalent name interchanges

Treatment of problematic texts

Harmonizations

Character creation

"Measure for measure"

Allusion

Chiasmus

Chiasmus between parallel texts

Repetitions

Inclusio

Antithesis

Simile

Key words

Numerical patterns

Generalization and specification

Inconsistency, disharmony, and historical mistakes.

Notes:

Literaturverz. S. 413 - 444

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-444) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-57506-530-4

OCLC:

747411998