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Adventistische Schriften über: "When was the Book of Chronicles written? It is understandable that it contains information from the books of Kings and Samuel, but how many years before Christ was it written?"
Answer
The provided documents do not contain an explicit indication of an exact year BCE for the composition of the Books of Chronicles. It only confirms that the authors of Chronicles evidently drew on other sources as well as other books of the Old Testament and quoted them partially.
The texts also mention that the Book of Nehemiah, as one of the last books of the canon, was completed around 410 BCE, which provides a chronological framework for later Old Testament historiography. However, a direct dating of the Chronicles books remains open in these specific citations.
Source work of the biblical chroniclers
»The authors of the Books of Kings and Chronicles evidently used sources that they frequently referred to. In fact, the authors sometimes quoted from other books of the Old Testament without citing their sources...«
Chronological placement of the last biblical books
»The last book, Nehemiah, was completed two and a half centuries earlier, namely around 410 BCE ... No other book or part of a book of the canon approaches this date [of the Maccabean period].«
- Origin of the Chronicles books biblical timeline
- Sources of the Books of Chronicles and Kings
- Canonization of the Old Testament dates
Original Sources (English)
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