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I Chronicles 1–9: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Who were the Israelites? Was Israel’s first king, Saul, a hero or a disaster? Was David a gifted and accomplished leader or a murderer and a cheat? Did Solomon preside over the most glorious epoch in Israelite history or did he lead the nation into a fateful decline? In I Chronicles 1–9, the distinguished scholar Gary Knoppers addresses these questions through a thoughtful and exacting reading...

The publication in recent decades of most of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides an excellent opportunity to raise anew the question as to the genre of the Chronicler’s work. Among the scrolls published are fascinating works belonging to the broad category of “rewritten Bible,” such as the Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGenar), the Temple Scroll (11QT19), and the Reworked Pentateuch (4Q158; 4Q364–367; 4QRP). Study of these works along with other previously known writings,
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