By Serge Frolov
The monograph produces a brand new interpretation of the outlet bankruptcy of one Samuel by means of combining a number of hermeneutical versions, together with the speculation of chaotic (dynamically risky) platforms and the latest, primarily post-modern, shape feedback, to supply a brand new interpretation of the hole chapters of one Samuel. It argues that 1 Samuel 1-8 is an quintessential literary unit whose stance on such pivotal matters as monarchy and cultic centralization poorly is of the same opinion with that of the stability of Deuteronomy - Kings. within the diachronic standpoint, this unit could be construed as a post-Deuteronomistic redactional interpolation polemically directed opposed to numerous planks of the Deuteronomic/Deuteronomistic schedule. within the synchronic point of view, the trend of dating among 1 Samuel 1-8 and the stability of Genesis - Kings demands a non-linear, multi-dimensional analyzing of the corpus. either interpretational trajectories result in the realization that the thrust of the previous Prophets in its ultimate shape is managed to a substantial volume through non-Deuteronomistic parts.
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