Chronicles, on the other hand, is more traditional than Ezra–Nehemiah in the form of its history writing and continues to a great measure the literary tradition of earlier biblical historiography, in particular the Deuteronomistic, but at the same time deviates from its predecessor in its theological purpose and general understanding of the history of Israel. Chronicles is not a limited theodicy for a specific crisis, but an attempt to find the general principles which govern the history of Israel. ‘History’, according to Chronicles, is a series of concrete expressions of the Lord’s rule of
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