{"id":404,"date":"2006-10-30T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T07:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/10\/30\/harmony-of-israelite-history\/"},"modified":"2006-10-30T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T07:20:57","slug":"harmony-of-israelite-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/30\/harmony-of-israelite-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmony of Israelite History"},"content":{"rendered":"

My favorite harmony of the Israelite monarchies is that by James D. Newsome, A Synoptic Harmony of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles<\/em>. Unfortunately it’s been out of print for many years and I’ve seen it selling used<\/a> for up to $200. I now see that Wipf & Stock are reprinting it and it’s available for a measly $22.50<\/a>, plus shipping. If you do any reading or study of this part of the Bible, I highly recommend this harmony. In my opinion, it is better than:<\/p>\n

William D. Crockett, A Harmony of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles<\/em><\/a>. I don’t like the translation (Revised Version of 1884), the typeset (old), or the lack of features that Newsome has.<\/p>\n

John C. Endres, et al., Chronicles and Its Synoptic Parallels in Samuel, Kings, and Related Biblical Texts<\/em><\/a>. This is good if your starting point is Chronicles, but I more often work from Samuel-Kings.<\/p>\n

Jason L. Snyder, Samuel, Kings and Chronicles: A Harmony of Histories<\/em><\/a>. This is the newest, the most basic, and the most expensive ($40). It is more properly a synoptic view than a harmony, which means that there is no alteration to the chronological order, but each book is presented in its entirety with parallel passages presented alongside. I have reviewed this work in the next edition of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Suffice it to say, I have been so discouraged by the lack of availability of Newsome’s harmony that a friend and I started thinking about writing a replacement. Now it seems like that will not be necessary. Cheers to Wipf & Stock<\/a> for making it available (and to Baker for giving them the rights)!<\/p>\n

Here are three reasons why I like Newsome’s harmony:<\/p>\n

1. The inclusion of parallel passages from Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezra.<\/p>\n

2. The fixed position of Samuel-Kings in the left column, and parallels in the right column.<\/p>\n

3. The modification of the English version (RSV) to reflect the underlying Hebrew when the English has a different translation for the same Hebrew words (between Samuel-Kings and Chronicles). These changes are discretely noted.<\/p>\n

I’ll certainly require this as a textbook for the History of Ancient Israel class the next time I teach it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My favorite harmony of the Israelite monarchies is that by James D. Newsome, A Synoptic Harmony of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. Unfortunately it’s been out of print for many years and I’ve seen it selling used for up to $200. I now see that Wipf & Stock are reprinting it and it’s available for a\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}