Genealogies in Chronicles
Posted by Kevin A. Wilson on 4 Aug 2008 4:06 pm. Filed under Chronicles , Priests.
The SBL just announced a new book that I will have to pick up at the annual meeting this fall. It is entitled The Chronicler’s Genealogies: Towards an Understanding of 1 Chronicles 1–9. For most people, the endless lists of who begat whom and who forgot to begat are rather boring, but I love them. Although beset with problems, those genealogies provide lots of information about the priesthood in the postexilic period. In fact, I own Gary Knopper’s commentary on 1 Chronicles 1–9, but I never got around to buying the volume dealing with the rest of the book. Who needs a bunch of commentary on narratives when you could be reading about genealogies!