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II Samuel: A New Translation with Introduction, Notes and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

II Samuel completes P. Kyle McCarter, Jr.’s study of the book of Samuel. In this volume, McCarter continues the discussion of textual and literary sources as they relate to a reconstruction of historical events. A key issue for McCarter is accounting for the historical circumstances that led to the composition of the book of Samuel. In dialogue with major schools of thought pertaining to the...

that he drew from a written source. A number of scholars (most recently Dietrich 1972:127–29; Würthwein 1974:19–30, especially p. 24; Veijola 1979:233–34) have followed Schwally (1892:155) in striking the report of Nathan’s audience with David as secondary with regard to the surrounding narrative, and it is true that 11:27b–12:15a can be lifted out rather neatly, removing the prophet almost (12:25) entirely from the story. But in view of our earlier observation of the manner in which the tension
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