Editing Books of Chronicles (section)

=== Genre ===
The translators who created the Greek version of the Jewish Bible (the [[Septuagint]]) called this book ''Paralipomenon'', "Things Left Out", indicating that they thought of it as a supplement to another work, probably Genesis–Kings, but the idea seems inappropriate, since much of Genesis–Kings has been copied almost without change. Some modern scholars proposed that Chronicles is a [[midrash]], or traditional Jewish commentary, on Genesis–Kings, but again this is not entirely accurate since the author or authors do not comment on the older books so much as use them to create a new work. Recent suggestions have been that it was intended as a clarification of the history in Genesis–Kings, or a replacement or alternative for it.{{sfn|Beentjes|2008|p=4–6}}