Chronicler

Definitions

1. A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.
2. The presumed author/redactor of the Book of Chronicles and certain other books of the Tanakh.

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Examples

“But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make⟳ great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.”

“The Chronicler's survey of events in the history of Judah (often, but not always, from a positive perspective) is articulated through a theological framework centered on covenant. In short, the book of Chronicles recounts the faithful acts of ...”

“[…] effort to prevent⟳ a fall⟳ back into the idolatry and apostasy that had brought on God's judgment in the first place⟳. The Chronicler, like⟳ the postexilic prophets, did not desire a repeat⟳ of the Lord's judgment on Israel […]”

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