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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...

of the child who was the chief reason the union of David and Bathsheba was remembered as important. It is erroneous, therefore, to interpret Solomon’s birth and the assertion that “Yahweh loved him” (v. 24) as indicating that “the grace of God once again shines out over this child—and so over David, too” (Hertzberg). On the contrary, David, though his sin has been “transferred” and atoned for, remains in disgrace as far as the author of chaps. 10–12 is concerned, and David’s house is to be a permanent
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