The Chronicler’s David in 1 Chronicles 21: An Ideal Supplicant for the Yehud Community’s Identity Formation
This article argues that the genre of prayer in Chronicles possesses a unique rhetorical impetus. It invites readers to join in the prayer and persuades them to follow the prayer’s messages, which ultimately enables readers to transform their identity in accordance with the Chronicler’s desired futu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2024
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Scandinavian journal of the Old Testament
Year: 2024, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 169–193 |
| Further subjects: | B
Burnt Offering
B Forgiveness B Census B Identity Formation B David B Repentance B Prayer |
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| Summary: | This article argues that the genre of prayer in Chronicles possesses a unique rhetorical impetus. It invites readers to join in the prayer and persuades them to follow the prayer’s messages, which ultimately enables readers to transform their identity in accordance with the Chronicler’s desired future. This article focuses on David’s prayer in particular. David’s prayer and its related context could serve to shape the members of the Yehud community as supplicants by p ortraying David as a model petitioner. The prayer persuades readers to perceive the specific aspects that David’s penitential prayer communicates: 1) sin results in negative consequences, and 2) repentance should include a sacrifice since the external ritu al reverses Yhwh’s anger and sym bolizes an offerer’s devoted worship. The prayer functions to warn the post exilic members, as active supplicants, to be aware of their sinful situation and encourage s them to stand as sincere worshipers before Yhwh. |
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| ISSN: | 1502-7244 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scandinavian journal of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2024.2331470 |