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" Shaping Israelite Identity through Prayers in the Book of Chronicles "
Kim, Kiyoung
Williams, Joshua E.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1108853
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TLpq2468649097
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Kim, Kiyoung
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Williams, Joshua E.
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Shaping Israelite Identity through Prayers in the Book of Chronicles\ Kim, KiyoungWilliams, Joshua E.
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Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
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2020
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2020
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Ph.D.
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292
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This dissertation explores the subject of identity formation in the post-exilic community through recorded prayers in the book of Chronicles. This study reveals that through the recorded prayers, the Chronicler portrays the ideal identity of the post-exilic Yehud community as a liturgical community that fulfills the roles of praying and worshiping and exhibits a characteristic of monotheistic belief by citizens of the revived Davidic kingdom. This research undertakes exegetical, literary, and rhetorical analysis of prayers in their related contexts in Chronicles and further examines them in the socio-historical reality of the post-exilic community under Persian governance. Methodologically, this study focuses on the unique rhetorical features of recorded prayer. Recorded prayer is distinct from direct speech, the genre of narrative, or reported prayer since it could invite and persuade the audience of the prayer to transform their behavior in order to follow Chronicles' desired roles or characteristics. Thus, ultimately, the post-exilic community could actualize an ideal future Israel. This dissertation concludes that in light of the analysis of the text of Chronicles and the post-exilic socio-historical reality, the members of the post-exilic Yehud community should gather around the Jerusalem Temple and maintain the appropriate attitudes and habits of supplicant and worshiper toward their unique and special Yhwh while they await the Davidic kingdom's revival.
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Biblical studies
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Judaic studies
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Theology
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