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Antony Campbell’s valuable form-critical analysis of 1 Samuel highlights both the literary development of the text itself and its meanings for its audience. A skilled student of the Hebrew Scriptures and their ancient context, Campbell shows modern readers the process of editing and reworking that shaped 1 Samuel’s final form. As Campbell’s study reveals, the tensions and contradictions that...

grasped the edge of his own robe; however, LXX, 4QSama, and most commentators take it from the context to be Saul. It is possible that the MT attributes the act to Samuel as a deliberate symbolic action, considering such action to be undertaken by the prophets and not to be merely accidental (contrary view, Stoebe, 291; also McCarter, 260, 264, and 268; cf. Weiser, “1 Samuel 15,” 4). With Jeroboam, Ahijah tears his new garment; there is no accident (1 Kgs 11:30). Storytellers may be left liberties.
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