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Rodney Duke holds a PhD in Old Testament from the University of Emory. Besides Chronicles, his research interests include narrative theology and the use of the Hebrew Scriptures in the New Testament. He is the author of “The Ethical Appeal of the Chronicler,” in Rhetoric, Ethic, and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Discourse: Essays from the 2002 Heidelberg Conference, Edited by Thomas H. Olbricht and Anders Eriksson (London: T&T Clark International, 2005), 33–51; “Chronicles, 1 & 2,” in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books, Edited by Bill T. Arnold and Hugh G. M. Williamson (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2005), 161–181; and “The Strategic Use of Enthymeme and Example in the Argumentation of the Books of Chronicles,” in Rhetorical Argumentation in Biblical Texts: Essays from the Lund 2000 Conference, Edited by Anders Eriksson, Thomas H. Olbricht, and Walter Übelacker. Emory Studies for Early Christianity (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002), 127–140.