preceding Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—along with the books of Ezra, Job, Zechariah, and sometimes Daniel (Yoma 1.6). And generally in Jewish tradition, Chronicles was read spiritually, as a divinely inspired commentary on the history of the children of Israel. The content and the form of the book are intensely liturgical. Many years ago Gerhard von Rad surmised that it was structured around a series of Levitical sermons (1966: 267–80). More recently, De Vries (1997) identified the Jewish liturgical