1 Chronicles, Volume 14

Dr. Roddy Braun, David Allen Hubbard, Glenn W. Barker, John D. W. Watts, Ralph P. Martin, David Allen Hubbard, Glenn W. Barker, John D. W. Watts, Ralph P. Martin

• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780310588658
• Topic: Théologie et religion
• Subtopic: Critique et interprétation bibliques

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Overview of Commentary Organization:

• Introduction—covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues, purpose, and theology.
• Pericope Bibliography—a helpful resource containing the most important works that pertain to each particular pericope.
• Translation—the author’s own translation of the biblical text, reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in reasonably good English.
• Notes—the author’s notes to the translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms, syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of translation.
• Form/Structure/Setting—a discussion of redaction, genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features important to understanding the passage are also introduced here.
• Comment—verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly research.
• Explanation—brings together all the results of the discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.
• General Bibliography—occurring at the end of each volume, this extensive bibliography contains all sources used anywhere in the commentary.

The Genealogical Prologue (Chaps. 1–9)

Bibliography

Bowman, R. A. “Genealogy.” IDB 2:362–65. Brin, G. “The Status of the Firstborn in Genealogical Lists.” BMik 24 (1979) 255–59 (Heb.). ———. “The Story of the Birthright of Jacob’s Sons.” Tarbiz 48 (1978/79) 1–8 (Heb.). Brown, R. E. The Birth of the Messiah. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. Brunet, A.-M. “Le Chroniste et ses Sources.” RB 60 (1953) 481–508 (and 61 [1954] 349–86). ———. “Paralipomenes.” DBSup 6 (1960) 1220–61. Cross, F. M. “A Reconstruction of the Judean Restoration.” JBL 94 (1975) 4–18. Geus, C. H. J. de. The Tribes of Israel. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1976. (Extensive bibliography.) Gottwald, N. K. “Israel, Social and Economic Development of.” IDBSup, 465–68. Japhet, S. “Conquest and Settlement in Chronicles.” JBL 98 (1979) 205–18. Johnson, M. D. The Purpose of the Biblical Genealogies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Kallai, Z. “Tribes, Territories of.” IDBSup, 920–23. (With recent bibliography.) ———. “Judah and Israel—A Study in Israelite Historiography.” IEJ 28 (1978) 251–61. Malamat, A. “King Lists of the Old Babylonian Period and Biblical Genealogies.” JAOS 88 (1968) 163–73. ———. “Tribal Societies: Biblical Genealogies and African Lineage Systems.” Archives européennes de sociologie 14 (1973) 126–36. Mendenhall, G. E. “The Census Lists of Numbers 1 and 26.” JBL 77 (1958) 52–66. ———. “Tribe and State in the Ancient World: The Nature of the Biblical Community” The Tenth Generation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. 174–97. Michaeli, F. Les Livres des Chroniques, D’Esdras et de Nehemie. Neuchâtel: Delachaux & Niestle, 1967. 70–74. Osborne, W. L. “The Genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1–9.” Diss.: Dropsie University, 1979. Sasson, J. “Genealogical ‘Convention’ in Biblical Chronology?” ZAW 90 (1978) 171–85. Taber, C. R. “Kinship and Family.” IDBSup, 519–24. Waetjen, H. “Genealogy as the Key to the Gospel According to Matthew.” JBL 95 (76) 205–30. Waterman, I. “Some Repercussions from Late Levitical Genealogical Accretions in P and the Chronicler.” AJSL 58 (1941) 50. Weinberg, J. P. “Das bēit ʾāḇōt im 6.–4. Jh. v. u. Z.” VT 23 (1973) 400–414. Wilson, R. R. “Between ‘Azel’ and ‘Azel’: Interpreting the Biblical Genealogies.” BA 42 (1979) 11–22. ———. Genealogy and History in the Biblical World. New Haven: Yale University, 1977. (Extensive bibliography.) ———. “The Old Testament Genealogies in Recent Research.” JBL 94 (1975) 169–89. Wolf, C. U. “Tribes.” IDB 4:698–701. Zachmann, L. “Beobachtungen zur Theologie in Gen. 5.” ZAW 88 (1976) 272–74.

GENEALOGIES: DEFINITION AND TERMS

In view of the fact that 1 Chr 1–9 is composed in large part of genealogical material, it is essential to inquire into the nature of genealogies. “A genealogy is a written or oral expression of the descent of a person or persons from an ancestor or ancestors” (Wilson, Genealogy, 9). This expression may be found either included within the broader confines of a narrative in which much additional information is also included or it may be presented more succinctly in the form of a list, as is the common pattern in 1 Chr 1–9.

Genealogies may display breadth (“These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, . . .” 1 Chr 2:1) and depth (“The sons of Solomon: Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, . . .” 1 Chr 3:10). If a genealogy displays depth alone, it is termed linear. It must by definition have a depth of at least two generations. Wilson has pointed out that biblical genealogies, like extrabiblical ones, are normally quite limited in depth, with even the linear genealogies rarely extending beyond ten to twelve generations; a range of four to six is more common. However, 1 Chr 2–9 is noted as the sole exception to this principle, possibly because the writer has simply joined together originally separate genealogies (Genealogy, 197). If a genealogy displays breadth as well as depth, it is termed segmented. Due to their more complex nature, segmented genealogies are normally more restricted in depth than are linear genealogies. In Chronicles multiple descendants of an ancestor are frequently named, but the descendants of only one line (or at least not all lines) are pursued in subsequent generations. Although the terminology may be imprecise, and is not used by Wilson, we have on occasion termed such genealogies mixed. Genealogies may proceed from parent to child, in which case they are termed descending (cf. 1 C...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Author’s Preface
• Editorial Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction and Bibliography
• The Genealogical Prologue (Chaps. 1–9)
• David and Solomon (Chaps. 10–29)
• Transitional Unit (Chaps. 22–29)
• Indexes