II Chronicles (Bible)
By Jacob M. Myers.
Description
II Chronicles is a crucial book for historians of the biblical period and for students of the Bible. Like I Chronicles, it has been both overvalued and undervalued. In recent years it has, certainly, suffered undue neglect. However, II Chronicles is to be neither accepted as a faithful narrative of the period of biblical history from Solomon to Cyrus nor dismissed as an imaginative re-creation of that history. It must be taken as an important clue to the biblical process, for here we find the Bible quoting itself - sometimes directly, sometimes in paraphrase. Jacob M. Myers has set before h...
ISBN(s)
0385057784, 9780385057783
