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Adam.
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I don't know how the other RCL-family lectionaries do on this front, but this coming Sunday is the only one in the Roman Lectionary to feature a reading from Chronicles. Blink and you miss it. But, have you really missed out? Isn't Chronicles just Kings made less fun? Why is this part of our canon?
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Oscar the Grouch
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Probably for the same reason that we have Matthew, Mark, Luke AND John?
A couple of years ago, we had a discussion on the books of the Bible we would most like to lose: HERE
1 & 2 Chronicles was mentioned then as likely candidates for old heave ho...
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Adam.
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Thanks for reminding me of that thread, Oscar (which I managed to forget about despite having posted on it...). One thing which has struck me as a reason to appreciate Chronicles not mentioned there is the following:
In modern Jewish sequence, it's the last book of the Tanach. This means the final verse of the Bible is the restoration of the Temple at Cyrus' hands. This means that the last word is simultaneously hopefilled and humbling: the last word is of healing, but not at 'our' hands, nor even by God's unmediated action, but by his gracious free sovereign choosing of a foreigner.
Quite what we do with that as Christians, I'm not sure...
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