About the Book

From PREFACE In regard to the literary structure of 1 and 2 Chronicles I cannot follow the view of those who regard the author throughout as a mere copyist, nor yet of those who hold that apart from his Old Testament quotations he composed freely with no recourse for information to other written sources. I have given the view of a free composition but allowed a recourse to non-canonical writte...

About the Author

Curtis, E. L.; Madsen, A. A. ---

EDWARD LEWIS CURTIS, professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature in the Divinity School of Yale University;

Contents

CONTENTS

PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
INTRODUCTION:
§ 1. Name and Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
§ 2. The Relation of Chronicles to Ezra and Nehemiah 2
§ 3. Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
§ 4. Plan, Purpose, and Historical Value . . . . . . 6
§ 5. The Religious Value . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
§ 6. Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
§ 7. Peculiarities of Diction . . . . . . . . . . 27
§ 8. Hebrew Text and the Versions . . . . . . . . 36
§ 9. The Higher Criticism and Literature . . . . . . 44
COMMENTARY ON 1 CHRONICLES:
Genealogical Tables with Geographical
and Historical Notices . . . . . . . . 57
The History of David . . . . . . . . 180
COMMENTARY ON 2 CHRONICLES:
The History of Solomon . . . . . . . . . 313
The History of Judah from Rehoboam until
the Exile . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
ADDENDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
INDEXES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
I-IX.
X-XXIX.
I-IX.
X-XXXVI.

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