The books of Chronicles have a certain fantasy quality about them.
They create an imaginary world in which things happen just so, and
in which any potentially untidy loose ends in their narrative of
the past are tied together in a highly systematic way. This is
storytelling with the didactic purpose of inculcating a particular
ideology, bombarding the reader with a kaleidoscopic procession of
heroes and villains and presenting a frontierland of danger and
opportunity. John Jarick's focus on the literary world of
Chronicles provides a fresh reading of the work, foregrounding the
often unrecognized artistry in the telling of the tale-including at
times a distinctly musical language and a careful mathematical
precision. But at the same time he does not hide the dark
underbelly of the writing, with its persistent note of conformity
to the political and religious system advocated by the
storytellers. This edition is a reprint of the original 2002
edition with different pagination. A companion volume on 2
Chronicles is published for the first time in 2007.
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