{"title":"Samuel and the Rise of the Monarchy","authors":"W. Irwin","doi":"10.1086/370598","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"From the diverse and conflicting stories of the origin of the Hebrew monarchy given by the First Book of Samuel one fact stands out with the clarity almost of a demonstrated fact: chapter 11 is authentic history. It has certainly been touched up at points in the interests not of accuracy but of theological presuppositions; the introduction of Samuel in verse 7, the exaggerated numbers and the union of Judah with Israel in verse 8, and the account of the \"renewal\" of the kingdom at Gilgal in verses 14-15 are all palpably the harmonistic or tendenz addi-","PeriodicalId":252942,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1941-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"31","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/370598","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
From the diverse and conflicting stories of the origin of the Hebrew monarchy given by the First Book of Samuel one fact stands out with the clarity almost of a demonstrated fact: chapter 11 is authentic history. It has certainly been touched up at points in the interests not of accuracy but of theological presuppositions; the introduction of Samuel in verse 7, the exaggerated numbers and the union of Judah with Israel in verse 8, and the account of the "renewal" of the kingdom at Gilgal in verses 14-15 are all palpably the harmonistic or tendenz addi-