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David and Goliath, the call of Samuel, the witch of Endor, David and Bathsheba—such biblical stories are well known. But the books of 1 and 2 Samuel, where they are recorded, are among the most difficult books in the Bible. The Hebrew text is widely considered corrupt and sometimes even unintelligible. The social and religious customs are strange and seem to diverge from the tradition of Moses....

(A) Birth of Samuel, with the embedded prayer of Hannah (1:1–2:11) (B) Sins of Eli’s sons (2:12–17) (A) Samuel and his family (2:18–21a), with a note of Samuel’s growth (2:21b) (B) Sins of Eli’s sons (2:22–25), with a note of Samuel’s growth (2:26), followed by (B) A divine message to Eli through “a man of God” (2:27–36) (A) The prophetic call of Samuel (3:1–21). There is a “resumptive repetition” of the expression, “the boy/Samuel was ministering to/before the Lord,” in 1 Sam. 2:11a, 18. In this
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