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Is Samuel Among the Deuteronomists? Current Views on the Place of Samuel in a Deuteronomistic History

By Juha Pakkala , Cynthia Edenburg

Book information

Publisher
Society of Biblical Literature
Year
2013
ISBN
1589836383, 9781589836389
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2156566 bytes)
Series
SBL Ancient Israel and Its Literature 16
Pages
x+372\384
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-11-01 19:32:05

Description

The book of Samuel tells the story of the origins of kingship in Israel in what seems to be an artistically structured, flowing narrative. Yet it is also marked by an inconsistent outlook, divergent styles, and breaks in the narrative. According to Noth s Deuteronomistic History hypothesis, the Deuteronomistic historian constructed the narrative by piecing together early sources and generally refrained from commenting in his own voice. Recent studies have called into question the extent of Samuel s sources and their redaction history, as well as the textual growth of the book as a whole. The essays in this book, representing the latest scholarship on this subject, reexamine whether the book of Samuel was ever part of a Deuteronomistic History.

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