Samuel at the Threshold

Graeme Auld is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Contents: Preview: Introduction; The former prophets. Looking through the glass: Prophets and prophecy in Jeremiah and Kings; Prophets through the looking glass: between writings and Moses; Gideon: hacking at the heart of the Old Testament; Amos and apocalyptic: vision, prophecy, revelation; The making of David and Goliath; Solomon at Gibeon: history glimpsed; Vision of a new future?; Solomon and the Deuteronomists; Prophets shared - but recycled; What was the main source of the Books of Chronicles?; What if the chronicler did use the Deuteronomistic history?. A Further View: Re-reading Samuel (historically): 'Etwas mehr Nichtwissen'; History - interpretation - theology: issues in biblical religion; From king to prophet in Samuel and Kings; Bearing the burden of David's guilt; The Deuteronomists and the former prophets, or what makes the former prophets Deuteronomistic?; The Deuteronomists between history and theology; Samuel and Genesis: some questions of John Van Seters' 'Yahwist'; Tamar between David, Judah and Joseph; Leviticus at the heart of the Pentateuch?; Leviticus: after Exodus and before Numbers; Samuel, Numbers and the Yahwist-question; Counting sheep, sins, and sour grapes: the primacy of the primary history?. Bibliography; Indexes.