, c. Ap. i. 8), but also at the same time involves (according
to xxvi. 22, in spite of ix. 29, xii. 15, xiii. 22; 1Chronicles xxix.
29) the notion that each prophet has himself written the history
of his own period. Obviously, this is the explanation of the title
_prophetae priores_ borne by the Books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel,
and Kings in the Jewish canon, and of the view which led to the
introduction of 2Kings xviii. 18 seq. into the Book of Isaiah.
The claims of history being slight, it was easy to find the needful
_propheta eponymus_ for each section. Jehu ben Hanani, a northern
Israelite of Baasha's time, has to do duty for Asa, and also for
Jehoshaphat as well. Iddo the seer, who prophesied against Jeroboam
ben Nebat, is the anonymous prophet of 1Kings xiii. (Jos., Ant.
viii. 8, 5; Jer. on Zechariah i. 1); by this time it was possible,
also, to give the names of the wives of Cain, and of the patriarchs.
As regards a more definite determination of the date of the "Book
of Kings" which lies at the foundation of Chronicles, a
co-ordination of the two series of the Kings of Israel and Judah
can only have been made after both had been brought to a close;
in other words, not before the Babylonian exile.
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