By P C Beentjes
This monograph contributes to a greater knowing of the "Book of Chronicles". The previous 40 years have obvious an entire transformation within the examine of the "Book of Chronicles". the previous domination of Chronicles via parallel texts within the "Books of Samuel and Kings" made manner for learning the historic, sociological, literary, theological, and ideological points of Chronicles of their personal correct. This book/document is now more and more famous as being of significant curiosity to the second one Temple interval. interpreting the booklet of Chronicles, it seems that the Chronicler is consistently remodeling Israel's tradition(s) right into a new theological and ideological approach. during this research, awareness is, accordingly, paid either to express texts, resembling I Chronicles 17; 21; 2 Chronicles 20; 26, and to specific imperative issues, akin to the distinct functionality of Jerusalem, and the ordinary approach of ways the Chronicler offers prophets, battle narratives, and genealogies.
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Williams, ‘The LXX of 1 Chronicles 5:1–2 as an exposition of Genesis 48–49’, TynBul 49 (1998) 369–371 (quotation 370). 25 Dirksen, ‘1 Chronicles 5:1–2’, 20. C. Vriezen, ‘Einige Notizen zur Übersetzung des Bindewortes kî, in: W. Albright et al. ), Von Ugarit nach Qumran (FS O. Eissfeldt), BZAW 77, Berlin 1958, 266–273. 26 R. Le Déaut – J. Robert, Targum des Chroniques I–II (AnBib 51), Rome 1951. 27 Curiously enough, a number of topics that appears in 1 Chr 5:1–2 are present in the Targum on Gen 49:3, as a kind of predated information.
Therefore your two sons, who were born to you in Egypt, are now mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are”’. Joseph’s sons are adopted by Jacob as if they were his own sons. Hugh Williams, however, has succeeded to expose the view that Genesis 48 has anything to do with 1 Chr 5:1–3. 19 According to the Chronicler, the right of the primogeniture has been transferred to Joseph and his sons. The pure biological fact, however, that Reuben in the Hebrew Bible is recorded the first-born cannot be denied.
20a). The lapidary phrase ‘Ornan continued to thresh wheat’ (v. 20b) is not as harmless as it looks, because it calls to mind the story of Gideon in Judg. 6:11, which is part of a hieros logos too. The collocation ‘at its full price’ ( )בכסף מלאin 1 Chr 21:22, 24—which is found only one more time in the Hebrew Bible (Gen 23:9)—refers to a holy site too. It is the story that Abraham buys the cave of Machpela to bury his wife Sarah. There are at least two strong indications that the Chronicler alludes to this specific passage in Genesis.