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Among early Christian and Jewish writers, the books of Chronicles were tacitly understood as authoritative historical works. But in the Septuagint and Vulgate, these works were named “things left out,” suggesting that 1 and 2 Chronicles had only supplementary status in the canon. Jones begins his guide with an introduction, then tackles the genealogies (1 Chronicles 1–9), the united monarchy (1...

major corpus in chs. 2–8 is concerned with the Temple. This central corpus has been encased within introductory and closing formulae; the introductory formula in 2:1 states that ‘Solomon purposed to build a temple’ and the closing formula in 8:16 asserts that it ‘was completed’. Summarizing statements within the complex give constant reminders that it is consistently concerned with with this building project (3:1 and 5:1). At each end of the central complex stand single chapters (2 Chron. 1 and 9),
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