A Son to Me: An Exposition of 1 & 2 Samuel
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A SON TO ME

An Exposition of 1 & 2 Samuel

BY PETER J. LEITHART

Canon Press Moscow, Idaho

Peter J. Leithart, A Son To Me: An Exposition of 1 & 2 Samuel

© 2003 by Peter J. Leithart

Published by Canon Press, P.O. Box 8741, Moscow, ID 83843 800-488-2034 / www.canonpress.org

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of the author, except as provided by USA copyright law.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Leithart, Peter J.

A son to me: an exposition of 1 & 2 Samuel / by Peter J. Leithart.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 1-885767-99-4

1. Bible. O.T. Samuel—Commentaries. 2. Typology (Theology) I. Title.

BS1325.53 .L46 2002

222’.407—dc21

2002000982

To Christian David

May you live up to your name

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

SCRIPTURE INDEX

Acknowledgments

The book of Samuel has been well-plowed ground over the past two decades, the subject of a number of popu lar and scholarly commentaries, as well as a host of monographs. This book hovers somewhere between the scholarly and the popular; I have not included a full academic apparatus, but there are probably far too many footnotes for some readers. In any case, the commentaries that I found most helpful were those of Robert Bergen, Ronald Youngblood, Robert Gordon, Joyce Baldwin, and Robert Alter. I have worked through portions of commentaries by Walter Bruggemann and Kyle McCarter and S. R. Driver’s classic notes on Samuel; found useful insights in Robert Polzin’s Samuel and the Deuteronomist, Peter Miscall’s 1 Samuel: A Literary Reading, and J. P. Fokkelman’s awesome literary work on Samuel; and drawn heavily on Moshe Garsiel’s stimulating study of narrative analogies in 1 Samuel, wishing all the while that I could read modern Hebrew in order to make use of Garsiel’s work on 2 Samuel. Everett Fox’s inventive translation of Samuel, Give Us A King!, offered fresh readings and proved useful as I worked on the Hebrew text. Given the nature of this book, my debt to these scholars is not fully represented in the citations, and I hope this acknowledgment compensates in a small way for that inadequacy.

Over the past several years, I have had taught on all or part of the book of Samuel in several different settings, and I am grateful for all of these opportunities. The elders of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho, allowed me to teach Samuel in the adult Sunday School class for the past two years, and I am particularly grateful to those who regularly attended the class and whose provocative questions and comments have helped to shape this book. During the summer of 2000, I was invited to present a week-long series on 1 Samuel at a Family Camp sponsored by Reformation Covenant Church of Oregon City, Oregon. Thanks ...

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About A Son to Me: An Exposition of 1 & 2 Samuel

Peter Leithart offers here a typological reading of 1 & 2 Samuel as a unified book. By giving careful attention to the book's literary structures and its patterns of types and antitypes, Leithart unveils the symbolic world of Samuel's cumulative and cohesive story. His reading enhances our understanding of New Testament Christology while at the same time giving us a framework for applying the Old Testament to our own lives.

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