By Isaac Kalimi
Kalimi catalogues and categorizes the suggestions through which the Israelite historical past in Samuel - Kings is reshaped within the biblical books of Chronicles. The chapters of this learn think about a few of the historiographical and literary adjustments present in the parallel texts of Chronicles. simply because approximately 1/2 the cloth in Chronicles is obtainable to us in different biblical assets, comparability of the literary and linguistic units utilized by the Chronicler is especially revealing. Kalimi considers the ways that the Chronicler has edited the fabric to be had to him, addressing such subject matters as: literary-chronological proximity, historiographical revision, completions and additions, several types of parallelism and literary units, etc. A convenient compendium of the ways that the Chronicler handled his fabric via one of many premiere students operating within the box.
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Vv. 5–11). The brutality displayed by the founder of the Davidic dynasty was not acceptable to Josephus; as a result, in Ant. 323 he revised the biblical text and wrote: “[David] made clandestine raids on the neighbours of the Philistines . . ” Josephus related only the part of the biblical text that he felt comfortable with—that is, the fact that David refrained from taking people captive. He omitted the parts of the biblical story that he was uncomfortable with—that is, that David killed the people.
10 A case similar to the previous one concerns the murder of Sennacherib, king of Assyria: 2 Kgs 19:35–36 (// Isa 37:36–37) tells of the defeat of the Assyrian army and of Sennacherib’s return to Nineveh. Nearby (v. 37 // Isa 37:38) we learn of Sennacherib’s assassination at the hands of his sons: The angel of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians. . So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed and went and returned, and resided at Nineveh [vv. 35–36]. And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adram-melech and Sarezer [Qere: his sons] smote him with the sword .
See Ussishkin, Conquest of Lachish; idem, “Lachish,” 42–56; Ephºal, “Assyrian Ramp,” 333–47. 28. Rudolph, Chronik, xix. 26 Literary-Chronological Proximity attempt to ascribe sin to Hezekiah, despite the fact that Sennacherib’s campaign against Judah was, indeed, a punitive measure. The rabbis sensed this and explained it away in whatever manner they could. 29 Indeed, the Chronicler did not ascribe sin to Hezekiah as he did, for example, to Asa and Jehoshaphat (2 Chr 16:10–12, 20:35–37), yet he did not omit the “punitive measure” from his book: Sennacherib’s campaign against Judah.