Ehud Ben Zvi Diana V Edelman-What Was Authoritative for Chronicles -Eisenbrauns 2011 by Zvi, Ehud Ben -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

What Was Authoritative for Chronicles? Contents Preface

Note to the Reader

Ehud Ben Zvi: Introduction Ehud Ben Zvi: One Size Does Not Fit All: Observations on the Different Ways That Chronicles Dealt with the Authoritative Literature of Its Time

Introduction Chronicles and Authoritative Narratives: Observing Some Central Trends Chronicles and Laws in Authoritative Books: Observing Some Central Trends Chronicles and Prophetic Literature and Psalms: Observing Central Trends In Sum

Steven J. Schweitzer: Judging a Book by Its Citations: Sources and Authority in Chronicles

Sources Used in Chronicles: Explicit Citations Sources Used in Chronicles: Unacknowledged Texts and Allusions Conclusion

David A. Glatt-Gilad: Chronicles as Consensus Literature Philip R. Davies: Chronicles and the Definition of “Israel”

Bibliography

Joseph Blenkinsopp: Ideology and Utopia in 1-2 Chronicles

The Political Situation: A Troubled Time Holy War, Holy Warriors Priests and Levites The Chronicler’s Emancipation from Tradition The Author and His Circle

Ingeborg Löwisch: Cracks in the Male Mirror: References to Women as Challenges to Patrilinear Authority in the Genealogies of Judah

Introduction Presuppositions about 1 Chronicles 1-9

Genealogical Composition at the Beginning of a Retold Story Understanding Heterogeneity as a Tool Rather Than an Accident The Late Persian Period as Actual Context for Chronicles’ Performance of Memory and Identities

Reading Strategy: Synchronic Reception-Oriented Analysis in the Framework of Interdisciplinary Memory Studies

Synchronic Close Reading of Case Studies Theoretical Framework of Cultural Memory Authority and Negotiation in the Genealogies’ Act of Transfer

Fissures in the Patriarchal Succession through Female-Gendered References in the Genealogies of Judah

The Patriarchal Succession at Risk: 1 Chronicles 2:3-4 and 2:34-35

Tamar Sheshan’s Daughter

Gender Fluidity in Key Genealogical Roles and Formalized Genealogical Language

Ephrathah Zeruiah Slimming Up

Breakdowns of Syntactical Coherence and Meaning: Obscured Female Agency and Ownership in 1 Chronicles 2:18-19 and 4:17-18

Conclusion

Yairah Amit: Araunah’s Threshing Floor: A Lesson in Shaping Historical Memory

Introduction The Different Settings of the Two Versions The Means Used by the Chronicler

Sequence Considerations Genre Considerations Intertcxtuality Considerations

Jerusalem and Its Rivals Shaping the Memory Conclusion Bibliography

Louis Jonker: The Chronicler and the Prophets: Who Were His Authoritative Sources

Introduction References to Prophetic Activity in Chronicles

Known Prophets Prophets Mentioned in the Deuteronomistic Vorlage Prophets Introduced by the Chronicler Levites as Prophets Figures Mentioned in the Vorlage but Not as Prophets

Issues Raised in Scholarship

Do We Witness Here the End of Prophecy? Prophecy and Cult

Jeremiah in Chronicles Conclusions

Amber K. Warhurst: The Chronicler’s Use of the Prophets

Introduction The Hezekiah Narrative The Fall of Jerusalem Summary and Conclusion

Mark Leuchter: Rethinking the “Jeremiah” Doublet in Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles

Prophetic Authority in EN and Chronicles Imperial Administration and Prophetic Parallels in Jeremiah Implicit Allusions to Jeremianic Prophecy in EN Explicit Allusions to Jeremianic Prophecy in Chronicles Jeremiah as a Hermeneutical Topos in Both EN and Chronicles Conclusion: Prophetic and Textual Authority and Political Perspective in Chronicles

David J. Chalcraft: Sociology and the Book of Chronicles: Risk, Ontological Security, Moral Panics, and Types of Narrative

Introduction: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Risk

Method: Using the Sociological Imagination for Creative Synthesis in Biblical Studies Disasters and the Disruption of Communal and Biographical Flow Sociological Questions for the Book of Chronicles

Ontological Security, Biographical Disruption, and Illness Narratives

The Wounded Storyteller Story Types, Social Agents, and Social Contexts in the Book of Chronicles

Folk Devils and Moral Panics in the Book of Chronicles

Moral Panic: Swift Moral Retribution and Divine Judgment 2 Chroniclcs 12:1-12: The Narrative of Shishak’s Invasion as Moral Panic Marriages with Foreigners: The Second Disaster?

Bureaucracy, Bureaucratic Narrative, and Ontological Security A Narrative Born of a Successful Quest to Overcome Disruption? Hezekiah’s Passover Bibliography

Diana Edelman and Lynette Mitchell: Chronicles and Local Greek Histories

Introduction The Greek Historiographical Tradition and Local Histories Chronicles in the Framework of Local Greek Histories Conclusion Bibliography

Index of Authors Index of Scripture

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