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  • 2 - Suggested Readings on Samuel

  • Marvin A. Sweeney, Claremont School of Theology, California
  • Book:
    1 – 2 Samuel
    Published online:
    14 December 2023
    Print publication:
    21 December 2023, pp 21-25

  • Summary

    This short chapter explores texts relating to 1–2 Samuel, including commentaries, research works, text editions, and the context of the Former Prophets and Deuteronomistic History. It also surveys methodological issues, historical and archeological studies of the book’s context, and other useful works.

Royal Illness and Kingship Ideology in the Hebrew Bible
  • Isabel Cranz
  • Published online:
    19 November 2020
    Print publication:
    22 October 2020
  • In this book, Isabel Cranz offers the first systematic study of royal illness in the Books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles. Applying a diachronic approach, she compares and contrasts how the different views concerning kingship and illness are developed in the larger trajectory of the Hebrew Bible. As such, she demonstrates how a framework of meaning is constructed around the motif of illness, which is expanded in several redactional steps. This development takes different forms and relates to issues such as problems with kingship, the cultic, and moral conduct of individual kings, or the evaluation of dynasties.  Significantly, Cranz shows how the scribes living in post-monarchic Judah expanded the interpretive framework of royal illness until it included a message of destruction and a critique of kingship. The physical and mental integrity of the king, therefore, becomes closely tied to his nation and the political system he represents.