2 Chronicles: A Commentary

600 Pages·2012·38.899 MB·English

by  Ralph W. Klein, Paul D. Hanson (editor)

2 Chronicles
Ralph W. Klein
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2 Chronicles
Hermeneia
—A Critical
and Historical
Commentary
on the Bible
Old Testament Editorial Board
Peter Machinist, Harvard University, chair
Klaus Baltzer, University of Munich
Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Paul D. Hanson, Harvard University
Thomas Kruger, University of Zurich
S. Dean McBride, Jr., Union Presbyterian Seminary
Andreas Schuele, Union Presbyterian Seminary
Frank Moore Cross, Harvard University, member emeritus
New Testament Editorial Board
Helmut Koester, Harvard University, chair
Harold W. Attridge, Yale University
Adela Yarbro Collins, Yale University
Eldon Jay Epp, Case Western Reserve University
Hansjosef Klauck, University of Chicago
James M. Robinson, Claremont Graduate University, member emeritus
2 Chronicles
A Commentary
by Ralph W. Klein
Edited by
Paul D. Hanson
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2 Chronicles
A Commentary
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The Author
Ralph W. Klein is Christ Seminary-Seminex professor of Old
Testament emeritus at the Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago, where he served as dean from 1988-99 and again
in 2005. Previously he was professor and chair of the depart¬
ment of exegetical theology at Christ Seminary-Seminex, St.
Louis; assistant professor at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis;
and an instructor at Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne,
Ind. He was a guest professor at the University of Chicago
Divinity School in 1998 and at Yale Divinity School in 2009.
He is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America.
Klein received his B.A. from Concordia Senior College,
the M.Div. from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and the
Th.D. from Harvard University, where he was a Teaching
Fellow and Rockefeller Fellow. During sabbatical leaves,
Klein has also studied at the Albright Insdtute of Archaeo¬
logical Research and the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem, at
Cambridge University in England, and at Philipps University
in Marburg, Germany. He was editor of Currents in Theology
and Mission from 1974 to 2009 and is an associate editor of
the Catholic Biblical Quarterly. Klein founded and chaired the
Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah Group for the Society of Biblical
Literature. His scholarly publications include Textual Criti¬
cism of the Old Testament (1984), Israel in Exile (1979), 1 Samuel
(WBC, 1983), and Ezekiel: The Prophet and His Message (1988).
Endpapers
The endpapers of this volume show fragments of 4Q118,
containing portions of 2 Chron 28:27—29:3, published
in Qumran Cave 4. XI (DJD XVI), ed. E. Ulrich (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2000), 295-97, plate xxxviii, no. 118.
This photo of the 4Q118 fragments courtesy of the Israel
Antiquities Authority.