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The Book of Samuel contains some of the most memorable accounts of the Bible: Hannah’s prayer for a son and trust in the coming Messiah, God’s call to Samuel at night in the tabernacle, the capture of Yahweh’s ark, and the death of the high priest Eli. Narratives tell of the anointing of Saul as Israel’s first king and his subsequent apostasy, the battle of David and Goliath, the messianic...

despot who pushed aside his predecessor to seize the throne and who eliminated some of his sons in order to cling to his crown.23 The story of David in Samuel seems to them too good to be true, and getting behind the text’s portrait of David reveals him as simply another minor Near Eastern potentate. Polzin goes even farther, claiming that the text of Samuel itself mainly portrays David in a negative light, consistently condemning him through explicit and implicit characterizations.24 On the other
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