Acknowledgments iiAbbreviations xIntroduction Paul S. EvansPart 1Texts and StudiesThe Genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1–9: Purposes, Forms, and the Utopian Identity of Israel 9Steven SchweitzerReading the Lists: Several Recent Studies of the Chronicler’s Genealogies 9Keith BodnerSeeking Saul in Chronicles 3P. J. SaboLet the Crime Fit the Punishment: The Chronicler’s Explication of David’s “Sin” in 1 Chronicles 21 65Paul S. EvansOf Jebus, Jerusalem, and Benjamin: The Chronicler’s Sondergut in 1 Chronicles 21 against the Background of the Late Persian Era in Yehud 81Louis JonkerHistoria or Exegesis? Assessing the Chronicler’s Hezekiah-Sennacherib Narrative 103Paul S. EvansReading Chronicles and Reshaping the Memory of Manasseh 121Ehud Ben ZviThe Cohesiveness of 2 Chronicles 33:1–36:23 as a Literary Unit Concluding the Book of Chronicles 141Shannon E. BainesPart 2Central Themes“To Him You Must Listen”: The Prophetic Legislation in Deuteronomy and the Reformation of Classical Tradition in Chronicles 161Gary N. KnoppersDivine Retribution in Herodotus and the Book of Chronicles 195John W. WrightGazing through the Cloud of Incense: Davidic Dynasty and Temple Community in the Chronicler’s Perspective 215Mark J. BodaToward a Sense of Balance: Remembering the Catastrophe of Monarchic Judah/(Ideological) Israel and Exile through Reading Chronicles in Late Yehud 247Ehud Ben ZviPart 3Future ProspectsResponse: Reflections on the Book of Chronicles and Second Temple Historiography 269Christine MitchellBibliography 279Indexes 311Index of Authors 11Index of Scripture 16