a second line is constituted by those studies investigating the nature of Chronicles. The question What is Chronicles? is central in these studies. Since the first quarter of the twentieth century, scholars—under the influence of the disillusionment with “objective history”—started qualifying the view that Chronicles could be read as history. Increasingly, it was acknowledged that this book contains history-with-a-purpose. That Chronicles narrates the history of Judah (and Israel) does not necessarily