Abstract
Chronicles takes history and reconstructs it to make it more acceptable in terms of its time and place. The Chronicler writes a form of revisionist religious history, to revitalize, reinvigorate, and renew Judaism for the returning exiles from Babylon and their descendants. Chronicles is selective history. The Chronicler understands that Moses created the nation of Israel from a group of slaves, and that David created a dynastic monarchic system of government. By the time Chronicles is written, that system was gone and what replaces it is a religion based on the Temple, the cultus and the attendant Levitical personnel.
DOI
10.7252/Journal.01.2013F.08
Recommended Citation
Reiss, Moshe and Zucker, David J.
(2013)
"Chronicles as Revisionist Religious History,"
The Asbury Journal:
Vol. 68:
No.
2, p. 120-133.
Available at:
https://place.asburyseminary.edu/asburyjournal/vol68/iss2/9
Included in
Missions and World Christianity Commons, Other Religion Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons
