The Century Bible: A Modern Commentary, Kings (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Century Bible: A Modern Commentary, Kings Or Hagiographa), and was composed of the two books of Chronicles and Ezra - Nehemiah, which In ordinary editions of the Hebrew Bible stand (in reversed order) at the close of the whole collection. To this difference of canonical position corresponds a marked diversity of character, which may best be expressed by saying that the two groups represent the labours of two distinct historical schools. The outstanding feature of the earlier group is 'what is termed 'the Deuteronomic redaction that is to say, these books were thrown into shape and edited (in ways to be afterwards explained) by a school of writers who were in¿uenced by the ideas Of the Book of Deuteronomy. The other group (with which we are not further concerned) was produced at a much later date by an editor or editors whose standpoint, broadly speaking, was that of the Priestly Code. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.