Hannah’s Desire, God’s Design: Early Interpretations of the Story of Hannah (Biblia.com)

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This study analyzes the biblical personage Hannah as a literary entity, to illustrate her uniquely significant place in the traditions of Israel as the mother of Samuel and thus of the reform of the priesthood, the creation of the monarchy, and the teacher of all Israel. There are three interweaving themes: first, the literary issue of the barren mother type scene; second, the theological theme...

My study assumes from the foregoing analysis of canonical issues that both interpretations coexist in the final form of the story. A look at the contours of that story lays the foundation on which to develop this claim. The story of Hannah opens 1 Samuel and continues from 1:1 to 2:21, intercalated by the story of Eli’s corrupt sons in 2:12–17. The Hannah narrative develops in two movements: the first, ‘Hannah Finds her Voice’ and the second, ‘Hannah Uses her Voice’.

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