scholarly journals ROYAL CARE FOR THE POOR IN ISRAEL’S FIRST HISTORY: THE ROYAL LAW DEUTERONOMIAN 17:14-20), HANNAH’S SONG (1 SAMUEL 2:1-10), SAMUEL’S WARNING (1 SAMUEL 8:10-18), DAVID’S ATTITUDE (2 SAMUEL 24:10-24) AND AHAB AND NABOTH (1 KINGS 21) IN INTERTEXT

Scriptura ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eben Scheffler
Keyword(s):  
Samuel 2 ◽  
The Poor ◽  
1 Samuel ◽  
1 Kings ◽  
2 Samuel

WHAT IF THE CHRONICLER DID USE THE DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY?

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 137-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Graeme Auld
Keyword(s):  
Deuteronomistic History ◽  
Former Prophets ◽  
1 Samuel ◽  
1 Kings ◽  
2 Samuel

AbstractThe Chronicler's presumed familiarity with Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and 1 Samuel is first briefly explored. Closer scrutiny of the David story in 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles suggests that the Chronicler's use of 2 Samuel as source, while possible, is unlikely. Similar results for the story of Solomon in 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles are noted. And consideration of the counterfactual leads helpfully to a new question about the books of the Former Prophets.

Bathsheba in Contemporary Romance Novels

2020 ◽  
pp. 405-423
Author(s):  
Sara M. Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Text ◽  
Reception History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Kings 1 ◽  
Romance Novels ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
1 Kings ◽  
2 Samuel

The biblical texts about Bathsheba have notorious gaps, even by the laconic standards of Hebrew narrative. Post-biblical receptions of the story flesh out the terse chapters of 2 Samuel 11–12 and 1 Kings 1–2, ascribing feelings and motives to Bathsheba and David that are not contained in the Hebrew text. This essay examines the intersection of reception history and feminist biblical scholarship by considering eleven novels about Bathsheba from the twentieth and twenty-first century. These novels expand Bathsheba’s character beyond the text, but in fairly gender stereotypical ways, such that feminist readers of the novels may be left wanting more.

1 Samuel 2:13–16 in the Context of Mediterranean Tariff Texts

2018 ◽  
Vol 130 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-558
Author(s):  
Bronson Brown-deVost
Keyword(s):  
Samuel 2 ◽  
1 Samuel

Zusammenfassung 1Sam 2,13–16 beinhaltet eine Beschreibung religiöser Praktiken in Schilo, die mit den Söhnen Elis, Hofni und Pinchas, verbunden sind. Die kultische Erzählung fügt sich nur schlecht in den umgebenden Text ein und ihre Bedeutung bleibt spekulativ, sowohl in modernen historisch-kritischen Studien als auch in der Textgeschichte des Samuelbuches. Der Vergleich mit phönizischen und griechischen Opferbestimmungen aus der Mitte bis zum Ende des 1. Jt. v. Chr. bietet einen soziolinguistischen Hintergrund, der zum Verständnis der Textpassage beiträgt und einige der Schwierigkeiten dieses Textes löst.

Prophecy and Apocalyptic

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Human History ◽  
Samuel 2 ◽  
Bodily Resurrection ◽  
1 Samuel ◽  
Third Isaiah

Chapter 5 describes the rise in exilic and post-exilic Israel of a new prophecy about God’s end-time reign. This prophecy (in Third Isaiah, Ezekiel, Joel, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi) exhibited significant shifts in genre and patterns of revelation and intermediation. It envisioned mythic images and archetypes, known from across the ancient Near East, powerfully resurfacing to reveal transcendence interrupting human history and establishing millennial peace incontestably. It forged vibrant, urgent worldviews from allusions to Israel’s emerging corpus of authoritative, sacred writings. Each new apocalyptic imagination reflected the traditions of its originating group, often a priestly sect of Aaronides, Zadokites, or Levites. Thus, Isaiah 26 forges a prophecy of bodily resurrection from images of fecundity found in Isaiah 54. Zechariah 3 and 6 rework Ezekiel 21 and Genesis 49 into expectations of a humble Messiah. And Malachi’s warnings of end-time purgation recapitulate God’s judgment on priests in 1 Samuel 2:27–4:1.

Saul’s Heroic Bones

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-184
Author(s):  
Brian R. Doak
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
The Political ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
The Bible ◽  
1 Samuel ◽  
2 Samuel

Chapter 6 follows a tradition of comparative studies linking Saul with Greek heroic themes and takes up a detailed analysis of Saul’s bone-transferral narratives (1 Samuel 31; 2 Samuel 21) in light of what is known about heroic bone relics and the politics of hero cults in the Iron Age Western Mediterranean. Saul’s status as an Israelite hero is a hitherto underexplored lens through which to investigate the meaning and power of his dead body, and here it is argued that by comparing the biblical account of the transferral of Saul’s bones with classical Greek texts of heroic bone transfer, we are able to see the political import of David’s actions in the Bible more clearly as a “body manipulator” and thus better understand the dynamics of bodily power in this text.

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