The Chronicler as Author. Studies in Text and Texture. (Briefly Noted).

The Chronicler as Author. Studies in Text and Texture. Edited by M. Patrick Graham and Steven L. McKenzie (Sheffield, $90). The sixteen essays in this volume deal with Chronicles as literature and are a sequel to The Chronicler as Historian, published in 1997. Two issues may be highlighted in this brief review.' The first is covered by two essays that explore the way the Chronicler has used his biblical and extrabiblical sources, showing faithful adherence to them and freedom to modify and elaborate them. Ironically, we know less about the Chronicler's extrabiblical sources than ever before. An essay by M. evaluates various models of redaction and decisively refutes, in my opinion, the proposal of Graeme Auld that Chronicles was not dependent on Samuel-Kings but that both works used a common source. The second issue that is treated in two essays is the way in which the Chronicler has incorporated canonical psalms in 1 Chronicles 16. By incorporating and redacting these psalms the Chronicler has given them a n ew setting and a distinctively different meaning. The editors are to be congratulated for this sterling collection.