chronicler

plural chroniclers

1. A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.

   But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.

   2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268

   Synonyms: chronist, historian

1. The presumed author/redactor of the Book of Chronicles and certain other books of the Tanakh.

   […] effort to prevent a fall back into the idolatry and apostasy that had brought on God's judgment in the first place. The Chronicler, like the postexilic prophets, did not desire a repeat of the Lord's judgment on Israel […]

   2019, CSB Bibles by Holman, KJV Apologetics Study Bible, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 49

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   The Chronicler's survey of events in the history of Judah (often, but not always, from a positive perspective) is articulated through a theological framework centered on covenant. In short, the book of Chronicles recounts the faithful acts of ...

   2010, Tremper Longman, David E. Garland, The Expositor's Bible Commentary: 1 Chronicles-Job, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 36

   Synonyms: Chronist