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...

Jerusalem, and she grieves because the city was destroyed by the Romans (10:41–49). But the reward to the faithful in the end time will far outweigh the sufferings they endure (12:34). The second leg on which this study stands is the ancient understanding of divine causality. It was the ‘cultural assumption of the ancient Near East that certain occurrences and concatenations of events were attributable to divine agency’.17 Divine actions were described as having motive, deliberation

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