Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. ‘What Historians Do’: The Chronicler’s Historiographic Goal
2. Judean Local Government and the Davidides in Chronicles
3. The Davidides, the Levites, and the Assembly
4. The Good and Bad Deaths of Josiah: Prophecy and Peace in
Chronicles
5. The Davidides and the Achaemenids
6. The Development and Failure of the pro-Davidic Vision
7. Conclusion
Index
A political reading of Chronicles, arguing that the work was created to convince interest groups within the post-exilic Judean elite to support an approach to the Achaemenids to restore the Davidides as a client monarchy.
David Janzen is Senior Lecturer in Old Testament at Durham University, UK.
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