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I have been anticipating the Book of Chronicles with some trepidation. Daniel and Ezra-Nehemiah were challenging, but, at least, they are set in discrete chronological frameworks. How does one approach a book (and it is one book; its division in two, like those of Samuel, Kings and Ezra, is medieval and non-Jewish in origin) that begins with Adam and concludes with Cyrus\u2019s edict permitting the return to Zion\u2014an era that, according to traditional Jewish chronology, spans some 3,000 years?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the end, it\u2019s not that bad. The first chapter all by itself skims up through the lifetime of Jacob\u2014a period of over 2,000 years\u2014and by chapter 3, we have already arrived at the Davidic era, which was nearly 1,000 years after that. Note that, according to the narrative, Abraham was born in 1,948 AM (<\/span>anno mundi<\/span><\/i>, years to creation); the Exodus from Egypt was about 500 years later, and the Temple was built almost 500 years after that.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These and related oddities were considered by Radak in his introduction to Chronicles.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Book of Chronicles belongs to the Holy Scripture in which it was incorporated because it contains an account of the events of the Judean monarchy. It begins with an abbreviated genealogy from Adam to Noah and from Noah to Abraham and from Abraham to David, who is the focus. Therefore, it narrows the genealogies of the Children of Israel to Judah (1 Chr. 2:3) until it arrives at David (2:15) and only subsequently does it relate the genealogies of the other tribes (4:24-8:40) and that [only] in order to establish their population in David\u2019s days. Everything in between that relates to the genealogies of other nations; any attempt to relate world events in an orderly fashion comparable to the Book of Genesis is provided in an abbreviated fashion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Enter the Midrash, which proclaims: \u201cChronicles was given only to be expounded (homiletically, <\/span>l\u2019hidaresh;\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Vayikra Rabbah 1, <\/span>inter alia<\/span><\/em>) or, in another version, \u201conly to expound on matters of Torah\u201d (Lekach Tov Exodus 2). Alter calls Chronicles \u201cthe most peculiar book of the Hebrew Bible.\u201d It is an invitation to compare persons, places, and things in Chronicles and their counterparts in their earlier biblical locations and to invest these comparisons and contrasts with meaning. (See <\/span>my post in praise of interpretation <\/span><\/a>in Nehemiah 3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The central question that we plan to pursue is: what criteria govern these selections? Why are some things repeated and others not, and why are some details different here from wherever they first appear?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The first verses of Divrei HaYamim (Chronicles) is a simple list of names - \u201cAdam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noach, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.\u201d We of course know these names already from Genesis, but here they are simply listed with no context or background story.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are many different ways to answer this. One way is to explain that Chronicles is merely a chronicle of world history with a clear focus on the nation of Israel, so the Tanach speed through them in order to reach the main story. However, to say that this is just a mere literary device, would be reducing the Tanach to \u201cjust\u201d a book. But I believe that it is not just a \u201cbunch of stories;\u201d there is a message in everything.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Each one of us descends to this world with a deep and cosmically relevant mission that only we can carry out.\u00a0 It is the very descent that is the purpose of our true being, because without it we would not be able to \u2018fix\u2019 ourselves nor the world around us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is why Rebbe Nachman explains the famous quote in the Talmud in tractate Sanhedrin in the following way:\u00a0 \u201cSince each man must say, \u2018The whole world was only created for me.\u2019 (Sanhedrin 37) -- hence, insofar as the world was created for me, I must at all times see and look into <\/span>tikkun olam<\/span><\/i>\/rectifying the world and to fill the deficiencies of the world and pray for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The state of the world is such that it requires each of us to take responsibility for it. We do not need a backstory or context, for each of us has a specific mission here, with no mission being more precious than the other. \u201cAdam, Seth, Enosh\u2026\u201d at the end we descend and rise back having either completed or not completed our task. The descending and ascending is the integral rectification and it is this flow that we must be attuned to. Each one of us, from the beginning of the Creation until the messianic age\u00a0 must be part of it. We descend when we are born and we ascend when we pass from this world, but this also happens daily. Some days we are following the path that is meant for our own actualization and transcendence and other days\u00a0 we are just flat - bound to a\u00a0 world that within it, strives to pull us in until we forget our mission.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our mission is arduous, with no one person\u2019s mission taking precedence over another. Like the first verses, we are all names - points of holy light enwrapped in the physicality of this world -\u00a0 a note in the melody of Creation.\u00a0 No context is needed in Chronicles, because it is the names themselves that are the central focus of the world -\u00a0 we are why the world was created and being created every moment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The book of Chronicles opens with a list of names starting with Adam mimicking the opening chapters of the book of Genesis. What is the point of having these names here? To answer this question, we must look at the very first Rashi in Genesis 1:1. Rashi poses the following question: Why does the Torah start with the creation of the world? If the essence of the Torah is the story of the Israelites and laws of Moses, then it should start with the first law in Exodus 12:2 \u201cthis month shall be unto you the first of the months.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi answers \u201cshould the peoples of the world say to Israel, \u2018You are robbers, because you took by force the lands of the seven nations of Canaan\u2019, Israel may reply to them, \u2018All the earth belongs to the Holy One, blessed be He; He created it and gave it to whom He pleased. When He willed He gave it to them, and when He willed He took it from them and gave it to us.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The point of the lineage here is similar. The purpose of the book of Chronicles is to act as the official record of the ruling dynasty of the house of David.\u00a0 It would make sense, therefore, that the author would want to connect this dynasty all the way back to Adam bolstering the idea that it is the chosen dynasty.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are also a few interesting things to note in the lineage. For example: Ishmael\u2019s descendants are\u00a0 listed as \u201cThis is their line: The first-born Ishmael\u2026\u201d; while the sons Isaac are listed as \u201cThe sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael\u201d with Isaac listed first. When Isaac\u2019s sons are listed,\u00a0 \u201cAbraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel\u2026The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.\u201d Esau is listed first but he is not referred to as the first born. The order of both emphasizes the status of Isaac and Jacob as the \u201cfirst born\u201d child even if they were not born first. Ishmael was the first born of Abraham, but Isaac was the first born of Sarah and was then given inheritance. 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In the introduction, we indicated that we would address the criteria for selectivity that were applied by the Chroniclers to persons and events. By \u201cChroniclers\u201d we mean both Ezra, who \u201crecorded the genealogies up to himself\u2019 and Nehemiah, \u201cwho completed them\u201d (Baba Batra 15a). We turn to the commentary that is attributed to Rashi but which, according to modern scholarship, was composed later in the 12<\/span>th<\/span> century (Rashi died in 1104) by someone who was acquainted with his and other earlier Northern French exegetical works such as those of Yosef Kara and Rashbam. In this regard, it resembles the \u201cPseudo-Rashi\u201d to Ezra-Nehemiah, and that is how we shall refer to it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to Pseudo-Rashi (1), borrowing from Midrash B\u2019reishit Rabbah: \u201cIt resembles a king who, while traveling about, lost a pearl. He paused and sifted through the dirt until he found it.\u201d Malbim (4) utilized a different analogy: \u201cJust as on a tree the fruit is the essence, the leaves are its guardians, and everything else is meant to be peeled off.\u201d In other words, in this chapter, the Chronicler was interested in Abraham and his descendants; any other names that are recorded are secondary and of instrumental value, and can be discarded once the essential personalities have been identified.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hence, only one name is recorded in each of the ten generations from Adam to Noah (1-3) because the flood was a process of \u201cnatural\u201d selection; we are invited to \u201csift through\u201d full genealogical lists for Japheth (5-7), Ham (8-16), and Shem (17-26) until we arrive at Abraham (27), the \u201cpearl.\u201d The descendants of Ishmael (29-31), Keturah (32-33) and Esau (35-42) are enumerated along with the early Edomite king list closing the chapter (43-54), and completing the \u201cpeeling.\u201d From 2:1 on, it is all Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A relatively minor point that occurs frequently in Chronicles is the alternate spellings of some names. For instance, the sons of Gomer (6) are \u201cAshkenaz, <\/span>D<\/b>iphath, and Togarmah,\u201d whereas in Genesis (10:3) the middle child is named <\/span>R<\/b>iphath. The sons of Javan (7) are \u201cElishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and <\/span>R<\/b>odanim,\u201d whereas in Genesis (10:4) the youngest is <\/span>D<\/b>odanim. While Radak explains this matter-of-factly as \u201cbecause <\/span>dalet<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>resh<\/span><\/em> are similar in appearance,\u201d Pseudo-Rashi provides a midrashic explanation for each change.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The Books of Chronicles begin by listing the first generations of mankind<\/span> from Adam to the sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel (i.e. Jacob)<\/span><\/a>, based on<\/span> Genesis 1:26 to 35:27<\/span><\/a>. Clearly, the interest of the Chronicler is to situate the people of Israel in the family of nations. This opening section of the First Book of Chronicles may be seen as a kind of inner-biblical midrash on \u201cThe Book of the Generations of Adam\u201d mentioned at the beginning of<\/span> Genesis Chapter 5<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Significantly, the 5<\/span>th<\/span> to 7<\/span>th<\/span> century CE mosaic inscription discovered in the<\/span> ancient synagogue at Ein Gedi<\/span><\/a> begins with a similar, but much shorter, list of the first generations of mankind from Adam to the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham and Japhet, which simply cites I Chronicles 1:1-4: \u201cAdam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Tanhuma Buber<\/span><\/a> relates the Biblical commandment of tithing to the recurrence of repeated series of ten early generations of mankind. \u201cYou shall set aside every year a tenth part (i.e. a tithe) of all the yield of your sowing that is brought from the field\u201d (<\/span>Deut. 14:22<\/span><\/a>). \u201cMoses said, \u2018Lord of the Universe! From here should we learn that we are commanded to withhold and pay out as a tax one tenth of all produce?\u2019 The Holy One, blessed be He, answered by citing<\/span> Scripture<\/span><\/a>: \u201cAsk the generation past. Study what their fathers have searched out, for we are of yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are a shadow. Surely they will teach you and tell you, speaking out of their understanding.\u2019 How so (i.e. where in the first generations of mankind do you learn the importance of the number ten?)? Note that there were ten primeval generations from Adam to Noah. Then from Noah to Abraham there were another ten generations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This midrash may be related to<\/span> Mishnah Avot<\/span><\/a> which records that there were ten generations from Adam to Noah, in order to make known how long-suffering is God. For all those first ten generations kept on provoking Him, until He brought upon them the waters of the flood. And yet again there were ten subsequent generations from Noah to Abraham, in order to make known how long-suffering is God. For those ten generations also kept on provoking God, until Abraham came and received the reward of all of them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Tanna de-Bey Eliyahu Rabbah<\/span><\/a> explains that the first generations of mankind were granted exceptionally long lives as a test. The third generation Enosh was willing to serve his father Seth but not his grandfather Adam. And so it was until the tenth generation Noah, who provided not only for his father and his grandfather but for all those still then living. And for his righteousness, Noah was rewarded by God, as it<\/span> says<\/span><\/a>: \u201cThen the Lord said to Noah, \u2018Go into the ark, with all your household, for you alone have I found righteous before Me in this generation.\u2019\u201d<\/span>
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\u201cAdam, Seth, Enosh<\/em>.\u201d (First Chronicles 1:1)
\r\n
\r\nAbout love, no one knew better
\r\nThan Adam and Eve;
\r\nHow, after their son
\r\nMurdered their son,
\r\nThey stood together above the open grave,
\r\nAnd as she wept
\r\nAnd wept, he embraced her,
\r\nWhispering her name.
\r\n
\r\nHow, during the wheat harvest,
\r\nHe would suddenly lay down his scythe
\r\nAnd stand upright, unmoving,
\r\nStaring for minutes at the clouds.
\r\nShe would come to him,
\r\nRest her head on his shoulders
\r\nAnd in silence,
\r\nHold his hand.
\r\n
\r\nHow, during the shearing of the sheep,
\r\nThey would leave the ewes and rams,
\r\nTo sit down and look at each other,
\r\nRemembering.
\r\n
\r\nAbout love, no one knew deeper
\r\nThan Adam and Eve;
\r\nWho, after years of mourning,
\r\nGave birth to Seth.
\r\n
\r\nAbout love, all we know
\r\nIs less than a crease
\r\nOn the bed-sheets
\r\nOf Adam and Eve.<\/p>\r\n

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1:1 \u201cAdam, Seth, Enosh.\u201d<\/span>
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Chronicles begins abruptly with a patrilineal genealogical list that runs from the first man to Saul, his sons, and his grandsons, at the end of chapter 9. Here at the very beginning, only the names are stated, without even the verb \u201cbegot,\u201d which is not used until verse 10. For the modern reader, this is scarcely an inviting way to begin a book. In fact, it may not be the actual beginning of the original book but a set of appended \u201cfiles,\u201d as Jacob M. Myers has called it, important to the editor because it makes the history of the line of David a culmination of the history of humankind, which exhibits its first great fulfillment in Abraham and his descendants. The author draws directly on genealogical lists in Genesis and, evidently, on some extra-biblibcal sources that were available to him. Narrative content emerges only after nine chapters of these \u201cfiles.\u201d The first part of the list here closely follows the Table of the Nations in Genesis 10, and the reader is referred to the comments there.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Comparative literature<\/em>. The sources of this chapter are clearly Gen. 5, 10, 11 and 36. When the lists are compared, it\u2019s easy to see what shortcuts were taken, what minor changes there are in the spelling of names, and other small but essential differences. For instance, Keturah is Abraham\u2019s concubine, not his wife as in Genesis; and the chieftains of Esau are the chieftains of Edom.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The list of nations<\/em>. Remembering back to Gen. 10, the sons of Noah were not just a family - they become \u201cthe list of nations.\u201d That is, the national-political map of the Fertile Crescent. In verses 5-23, names of familiar nations are evident, along with others less well-known.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Added info<\/em>. Despite the very straightforward approach of the book, there are occasionally fascinating tidbits of added information: \u201cNimrod; he was the first mighty one on earth\u201d (10); \u201cPeleg (for in his days the earth was divided, <\/span>niflega<\/span><\/em>)\u201d (19).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Not Jacob, but Israel<\/em>. \u201cThe sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel\u201d (34). Throughout Chronicles, Jacob is always referred to as Israel. Why? Good question. Remember what the name change is meant to convey, in Gen. 35 and also in Hosea 12.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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