or should be, a different issue from source criticism. Thus 1 Sa. 16:14–23 tells how Saul first met David as a musician; 1 Sa. 17:55–58 may well derive from a separate source, in which the challenge from Goliath provided the circumstances for David’s first coming to the attention of the king. If so, the compiler of the book has drawn on both earlier sources, and made his own clear decision as to which was the earlier event; the ‘duplication’ denies the historicity of neither story. Both the number