Is Samuel Among the Deuteronomists: Current Views on the Place of Samuel in a Deuteronomistic History
Cynthia Edenburg · Juha Pakkala
Oct 2013 · Society of Biblical Lit
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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. The contributors are A. Graeme Auld, Hannes Bezzel, Philip R. Davies, Walter Dietrich, Cynthia Edenburg, Jeremy M. Hutton, Jürg Hutzli, Ernst Axel Knauf, Reinhard Müller, Richard D. Nelson, Christophe Nihan, K. L. Noll, Juha Pakkala, and Jacques Vermeylen.
About the author
Cynthia Edenburg teaches Hebrew Bible in the Department of History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies at The Open University of Israel. Juha Pakkala is Docent and University Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Hebrew at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Intolerant Monolatry in the Deuteronomistic History and God’s Word Omitted (both from Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), and Ezra the Scribe (de Gruyter).
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