Ehud Ben Zvi is a professor (History & Classics, and Religious Studies) at the University of Alberta. A former president of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, his publications include, Hosea (forthcoming, 2005); Signs of Jonah: Reading and Rereading in Ancient Yehud (2003); Micah (2000) and A Historical-Critical Study of The Book of Obadiah (1996) as well as many articles on the historical books of the Hebrew Bible in which he explores the ways in which ancient Israelites construed their past and the significance of these images of the past for them. He is also a co-author of Readings in Biblical Hebrew. An Intermediate Textbook (1993).

History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles presents a new way of approaching this key biblical text, arguing that the Book employs both multiple viewpoints and the knowledge of the past held by its intended readership to reshape social memory and reinforce the authority of God

Part 1 Introductory Essays; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2; Part 2 Chronicles and the Rereading and Writing of a Didactic, Socializing History; Chapter 3 Observations on Ancient Modes of Reading of Chronicles and their Implications, with an Illustration of their Explanatory Power for the Study of the Account of Amaziah (2 Chronicles 25); Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Part 3 Chronicles and Theology as Communicated and Recreated Through the Rereading of a Historiographical, Literary Writing; Chapter 8; Chapter 9, A. Labahn; Chapter 10 Ideological Constructions of Non-Yehudite/Peripheral Israel in Achaemenid Yehud: The Case of the Book of Chronicles; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Part 4 Chronicles and Literature: Literary Characterizations that Convey Theological Worldviews and Shape Stories about the Past; Chapter 13;