This commentary, the first of two volumes on Chronicles, is the fruit of a lifetime’s research on the Chronicler on the part of K. As is usual in the Hermeneia series, the work is on a large scale with detailed commentary on all aspects of 1 Chronicles, including text-critical notes. This first volume also includes the introduction to Chronicles as a whole. Overall K.’s conclusions are very balanced. He accepts the increasing tendency of scholars to follow S. Japhet and H. G. M. Williamson in seeing Chronicles as a separate work from Ezra and Nehemiah, and he rejects the view of A. G. Auld that the Chronicler did not use Samuel and Kings, though K. accepts that it was an earlier version of these works that the Chronicler used. He envisages the Chronicler as both a historian and a theologian, and does not wish to press either to the exclusion of the other. In a work on this scale it is perhaps understandable that a few slips were overlooked: I noticed ‘Edleman’ for ‘Edelman’ (p. 289), ‘Dallie’ for ‘Dalley’ (p. 554), while on p. xx the date of my own edited volume on King and Messiah is wrongly given as 1999 (instead of 1998). But overall this is an excellent commentary and we look forward with eager anticipation to the appearance of volume 2. J. Day.