Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2003

Abstract

Yes, the Chronicler was a spin doctor—but a necessary one. He used the David story to address the needs of his postexilic community who questioned the value of God’s old promises to David in this new time of Persian domination, without a king, worshiping in a temple that was the mere shadow of Solomon’s glorious edifice.

Publication Title

Word & World

ISSN

0275-5270

Publisher

Luther Seminary

Volume

23

Issue

4

First Page

374

Last Page

381

Published Citation

Throntveit, Mark A. “Was the Chronicler a Spin Doctor?: David in the Books of Chronicles.” Word & World23, no. 4 (September 2003): 374–81.

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