ABSTRACT

The relationship between Chronicles and Judges is different. The 'evidence' would be stronger that the Chronicler worked from a text of Samuel–Kings, and learned this language from there, than that he worked directly from Deuteronomy. The Chronicler knows of Samuel and Saul, and is familiar with the claim that Saul had resorted to a medium; yet these are essentially figures from a past that the Chronicler does not report. If the Chronicler used 2 Samuel–2 Kings as source, then he both subtracted from his Deuteronomistic source, and added to what was left of it. Chronicles is related to a late or final or post-Deuteronomistic stage of the book of Joshua, but to a much earlier stage in the development of the books of Samuel. The Samuel pluses are more Deuteronomistic than the synoptic portions shared with Chronicles; and even the synoptic portions are more 'Deuteronomistic' at least in a minimal sense.