1 & 2 Chronicles: An Introduction and Study Guide - A Message for Yehud

List of contents

1. Context
2. Interpretations
3. Authorship
4. Themes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Leslie C. Allen is Senior Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Seminary, USA.

Summary

Leslie C. Allen introduces students to the 1 & 2 Chronicles in the Old Testament, incorporating insights from over two decades of previous scholarship while grounding his analysis in earlier key works.

“A Message for Yehud” sums up what has been judged to be a fundamental motivation underlying the whole book, a conviction that the obligation to “seek the Lord” in the light of the Torah and prophetic texts must be laid on the hearts of the community of Yehud in the fourth century BCE. To this end, using Samuel-Kings as a basis, Chronicles reviewed pre-exilic royal history for positive and negative clues as to how the generation for which it was written might achieve this spiritual ideal. In the book, Allen shows how this program was communicated all through the book by literary and rhetorical means.

Additional text

An accessible first guide to the riches of 1 & 2 Chronicles featuring a careful description of what it actually says, a judicious survey of some of its leading themes, and a summary of the rapidly burgeoning scholarship on this vital topic.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Allen, Leslie C Allen, Leslie C. Allen, Allen Leslie C.
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.08.2021
• EAN: 9780567697028
• ISBN: 978-0-567-69702-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament / General, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Old Testaments