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- Title: Who was the Chronicler's Audience? A Hint from His Genealogies.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
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In the past couple of decades the book of Chronicles has gone from being "the Cinderella of Biblical Studies" (1) to being one of the most studied and researched of all biblical books. One reason for this seems to be the fact that, while the date and authorship of the books that make up the so-called Primary History (the Pentateuch and the Deuteronomistic History), so long thought of as solved, have recently been called into question once more, (2) opinion on the date, authorship, and situation of the Chronicler has almost reached consensus. So while scholars who either accept or disagree with the "traditional" dates of, say, the Yahwist in the tenth century B.C.E. or the Deuteronomist in the late seventh must immediately show that they recognize and can contend with the opposing views, most recent scholarship on Chronicles, my own included, can safely assume that (1) the Chronicler lived in late Persian-period Yehud, probably before the Macedonian conquest of 333 B.C.E., (3) and (2) the author of Chronicles is distinct from the roughly contemporaneous author of Ezra-Nehemiah. (4) These two statements have achieved the status of "widely accepted assumptions" that do not have to be defended every time they are used. The intention of this paper is not to question either of those assumptions but rather to address another question that has occupied Chronicles research in recent years, namely, the social and idealistic milieu in which the Chronicler operated--the audience for whom he wrote--as indicated by the information that he saw fit to include in his genealogies.