Explorations in the Interpretation of Samuel

Intertextuality and Reception

Rachelle Lynda Gilmour, Benjamin Johnson

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111144269
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Jewish Literary Criticism

The series Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) publishes monographs and collected volumes which explore the reception history of the Bible in a wide variety of academic and cultural contexts. Closely linked to the multi-volume project Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), this book series is a publication platform for works which cover the broad field of reception history of the Bible in various religious traditions, historical periods, and cultural fields. Volumes in this series aim to present the material of reception processes or to develop methodological discussions in more detail, enabling authors and readers to more deeply engage and understand the dynamics of biblical reception in a wide variety of academic fields.

De Gruyter provides you with an array of publications in the area of Bible and biblical Reception:

• Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception (HBR)
• Journal of the Bible and its Reception (JBR)
• Archaeology of the Biblical Worlds

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Closed Wombs and Failed Harvests
• Chapter 3 The Book of Ruth and the Beginning of 1 Samuel: Reinforcing a Crucial Link in Primary History
• Chapter 4 Hannah and David’s Songs: Intertextuality in Josephus
• Chapter 5 Sheol or Saul: Finding Saul in the Intertextual Oceans of the Books of Samuel, Kings, and Isaiah
• Chapter 6 Flawed Fathers and Failed Leaders
• Chapter 7 On Whom the Lot Falls: Saul and Achan
• Chapter 8 Characterizing Kings and Kingship: The Enemy Lists of Saul, David, and Jehoiakim
• Chapter 9 Translating Divine Repentance: The Reception of ‏נחם‏‎‎ in LXX 1 Samuel 15
• Chapter 10 Five Smooth Retellings? How five Children’s Bibles demonstrate the reception of David, Goliath and God in 1 Samuel 17
• Chapter 11 Saul and the Small Screen: The Interpretation of the “Eternal Triangle” between Saul, Jonathan, and David in Kings
• Chapter 12 The Road to En-Dor: Saul’s Journey as a Knowledge-Finding Mission
• Chapter 13 All the Kings’ Women: Royal Confiscations in Genesis, Samuel, and Esther
• Chapter 14 An Intertextual Conversation on Interspecies Ethics: 2 Samuel 12:1 – 4 and Proverbs 27:23 – 27
• Chapter 15 2 Samuel 24 as “Outbreak Narrative” used for Pandemic Communication in Sermons from 19th Century England
• Chapter 16 The Main Figures of the Book of Samuel in Western Literature
• Chapter 17 Samuel and Genesis
• List of Contributors
• Index of Scripture
• Index of Subjects