TEXT -^Ch appears to have been less read^and henS^less often copied, than many other books. One source of textual error is therefore mmimised The h^tory of its transmission is, however, long JnouKh U-T-ive much room to textual criticism The text of Ch can often be corrected, m para el nassa^es, by that of S and K. but more often the Kofishfmself responsible for variations The pecuUar characteristics of Ch are certainly not textual. Sometimes Ch has preserved the better reS. The greatest number of textmil qnes on« is connected with proper names. The fo o«in taken from paraUel texts, may serve as lUustra- tions: — ,.
Ch has the worse reading :— . p.^afl-
ns-^ Gn IC. so ©. . „ .^^
1" ,^p, (SB om., A(5L Mo<rox; = ='? Gn 10= (where (5 also Mo<rox, but erroneously; ^,.- hae already occurred, v.»).
d&'M^y (interchange of 1 and • especiallj
1«',T''gB 2<uXaM. A Ia,XaM. ©L AXoua. = r.^S
AXoua=.-n^aGn36". (S^<-^'>-
CHROXICLES, I. AND IL
CHRONOLOGY OF OLD TEST. 397
1 Ch 3« V^v-'-x, CB EXtiffo, A GL EXi<ra/«i = vi=*-> 2 S 5", G E\«i(roi/j, etc. 4" 3-v, CIJ lap«y, A lapfi;3=i'3; Gn 46'<' = Ex6"
= Nu 'Jti'-, so G in all. 18'-»- ' ni;r;iq, G ASpa(a)i-op = nii;-):q 2 S 8«- •■ • (C here also, eiron., ASpoafop), etc. etc. The reading i8 doubtful : —
1 Ch 1*> -ss, GB Zwipap, GLZeT^in,=\Df Gn 36", G Za(pap. 1* •??. tSB Su;3, A 2u0ap, GL 2aT0«i=\BY'
Gn 36^, GB Za<p, GL Su^j-. 1" I'?, G *07wp, GL 4>oowi=is9 Gn 36", G
4>a>wp. V Wi-;, GB Ao^u/iijX, A GL AoXou»a= 3(<5'? 2 S 3',
G AaXoKia ( !). 4'« Sk5D^ = Nu 26", G (in both) Na/iowjX = Skid-
Gn 46'"= Ex 6'», so G (in both). mj = Nu 26", GB (in Ch) Zapcs, A GL Zopa(f), G (in Nu) Zapo = -uji Gn 46"'=Ex 6", G (in both) 2)cuip,
etc. etc. Ch has the better reading : — 1 Ch 1' D-ji'n, G 'PoSiot (GL Au8a>'«/*) = 0Ti'l Gn 10*, G 'PoSiot. 1" IJi,:, GB (itai) nva;-, A (rai) Ouica/i, GL (/cai) Ioa«oi' = |iJi^lGn 36^, G (koJ) Oi//co^ GL (/cai) louxa/i.
8^'VWrD GB 4 'I(7^7,X(f )(t7)S (GL 'IffpOJjXiTTJt)
= '^>r!i?:Ci 2 S 17", so GB GL, A 'laiuL-qXelrni. gB.n_93».i« "jyj-ix, GAtrajSoaX, If^oaX, IiTjSaaX BcuiX = ns^rr-i< 2 S 2«+10 t. Sam, G leySoffJe, cmd (most often, strangely) TiU/jupi^ojBe. 8^ " Svj 3-19 = 9" and (better, see Kittel) '^Win T.*, iTi MtpiiSaoX, Mfxpi/SaoX, Me^ipi/SaoX, GL MfM0'^aoX = n:y3-5n 2 S 4* + 14 t. Sam, G Me/»- ipi^oaee, GL Mt/i0i/3oaX, eic. 2 S 21' MefKpi- pf~r9e (for distinction). 11» ■3>p = 2 S 21'», G (in Ch) Zo^oxai, etc., &LZo^oKxa, GB (in Sam) Oe^oxa, A 2e^oxa«, GL Zo^eKXi = 'P:^ 2 S 23", GB <« rQy vlCiy, 2.j/3««,
etc. etc. For further details see in Wellh. De gentihus, etc.; Kittel, Books of Ch. in Hebrew; Driver, Hebrew Text of Samuel.
LlTlH<TtiRa (selected).— Tizr.— 8. Baer and F. Delitzscb, Liber Chnjnicorum (1S8-S) ; R. Kitt«l, The Books of Chroniclcn in Hebrew, Critical ed. of the Heb. Text. (ed. Paul Ilaupt), 1895.
TRASSL.\T10.fS.—T^. KeUBS, Ckroninue eceb'giaftiqne de Jiru- »al^, 1878 (La Bible, iv. part.) ; K. KaulzHch, Bticher der Chronik, 18»3, 18M (in Die Ueiiiijt Schr\ft d. A.T., ed. Kautzjicb).
C'iiiMKXTARIK3.—E. Bertheau, Bucher der Chronik. Jte And. 1873 (in Kurigef. Hxeget. Ilandbuch z. A.T.); 8. Octtli, Biicher der Chronik, lB8fl (in Kurzqe/. Bxeget. Eommentar z. A.T.); O. F. Kcil, Bucher der C^lu-onik, lb70 (in Bibligcfter Eojn- mtntar ilbrr d. A.T.), r,n(f. tr. 1872: \V. II. nennett, Tht Bookt of Chrmielrt, 1801 (in The Kzpiinlor'M Bible); J. Rohcrt- >on In Book by Bouk (18!iJ), pp. lll-llU; C. J. tall in Uiihitp Kllicnlti CommriUaru ; /Cockier Id lunge's Bihelvoerk, 18V* (Enif. tr. by J. O. Murjihy).
Critical Discpssioxs.—M. L. de Wette. BeiiTAge zur Kinlntung in d. AT. 1. 1806; K. H. Oral, />i> OeKhichllichen Biicher d. A.T. 1880, 114-247; W. It. Smith, Kitci/cl. Brilaii. t.v. 1878, OTJCi (18«2> Hon., 18211. ; J. Wellhauatn, Ueich. 178-2.17, Enif. tr. 171-227 ; A. Kuenen, Onderznrk, 2nd ed. vol. I. 1887. m-b-lO ; S. R. Kriver, LOT. 1891, «34-6ll7 ; O. H. CorniU, BirUfitum. 1891, 2118-278; O. Wildetwer, Origin of Iht Canon •/ tht Old TetlaineiU |1S91) 1596, 61, U2 f., 162, 162, LU. d. A.T. 189.S, 404-120; \V. F^. BarneH, ' Ki.-lii,'inus Standpoint of the Chronicler '(in Am. Jimm. Sem. Law), and Literature, Ortober 1898), •Chronick-n a Tartrum'(in Ez]M«Hory Timet, viii. (1897), p. 8iei.); Schurer, IIJP ll. i. 8(J9, 340, iii. 102; Oirtllestono, DeuUrograplm, 1M94 (pauim); Sanda)-, Bumpton Lecture* on Inspiration (1893), 1(12. 163, 244, 2.'.3 IT., 3J8, HA, 467 ; Kwald, Uittorn of lernel, I. lf,9ff. ; JenninRS, '(Chronicles' (in Thinker, July, Scpternhpr, November, 1S92); Kyle, Canon of the Old Teilammt (18112), 138 1., 146, 161, 162; Ladd, Tin Doctrine of .Sacred .5cripIurf(l&H;i), I. 1031., 373(1., 6460., 689 f. ; MonUtllore, HMtert Leclurn (18;i2), pp. 447 ff., 4,14, 4S3 ; Driver, 'The 8p<i<-hc« in Chroniihs' in Brpotilor, Apr. and Oct. 1896; H'hrirtir. *r/4 7^(18<i). 366 ff. ; on Ihi: rienfalayitt in particular, J. Wellhauncn, De gentilAU et familits .luda-it qua 1 Ch. '2-4 mymtrantur, 1870; Q. B. Gray, Studiti in Uebrew Proper /fames. 1896, ch. lU. FRANCIS BroWN.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE OT. — The OT con- tains data from which a chronology may be com- piled from the creation of the world to the destruction of Jerus. by the Chaldajans. Foi convenience, thi.s chronology may be considered under several periods.