Preface

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Part I OVERVIEWS OF CHRONICLES

Function, Explanation and Literary Phenomena: Aspects of Source Criticism as Theory and Method in the History of Chronicles Research

Kai Peltonen

The Chronicler as Redactor

Steven L. McKenzie

What Was the Main Source of the Books of Chronicles?

A. Graeme Auld

A Rhetorical Approach to Appreciating the Books of Chronicles

Rodney K. Duke

The Fabula of the Book of Chronicles

John W. Wright

Part II THEMES IN CHRONICLES

The Chronicler as an Interpreter of Scripture

William M. Schniedewind

Treasures Won and Lost: Royal (Mis)appropriations in Kings and Chronicles

Gary N. Knoppers

When the Foreign Monarch Speaks

Ehud Ben Zvi

Foreigners, Warfare and Judahite Identity in Chronicles

Armin Siedlecki

What Chronicles Has to Say about Psalms

Howard N. Wallace

Part III TEXTS IN CHRONICLES

Reading, Readers and Reading Readers Reading the Account of Saul's Death in 1 Chronicles 10

James M. Trotter

The Dialogism of Chronicles

Christine Mitchell

Whose Song of Praise? Reflections on the Purpose of the Psalm in 1 Chronicles 16

Kirsten Nielsen

David and God in 1 Chronicles 21: Edged with Mist

Noel Bailey

Utopian Politics in 2 Chronicles 10--13

Roland T. Boer

2 Chronicles 36.20-23 as Literary and Theological `Interface'

Magnar Kartveit

Index of References

Index of Authors