Comments on: David’s Great Escape (1Sam 19) http://anadder.com/davids-great-escape Wed, 16 May 2012 05:25:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: michael http://anadder.com/davids-great-escape/comment-page-1#comment-50638 michael Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:23:22 +0000 http://anadder.com/?p=4168#comment-50638 AFAIK, the DH was specific to the first 5 books of the Bible, I wasn't suggesting it was the DH specifically that suggested separate sources. It's just that given the obvious separate sources from previous chapters (David meeting Saul twice in contradictory circumstances) this option was on the table -- and I just couldn't see a real literary repetition being worded like that. "Its more reasonable to assume that the Biblical editor used a wide variety of sources in an ad hoc manner. " -- I don't disagree -- the narrative itself is coherent it's just these particular paragraphs that seem to come from different sources. As for YHWH vs Elohim, not sure what you mean that Lord is used throughout? One passage has YHWH and one has Elohim which is not a proof as I mentioned but does hint at separate sources. AFAIK, the DH was specific to the first 5 books of the Bible, I wasn’t suggesting it was the DH specifically that suggested separate sources.

It’s just that given the obvious separate sources from previous chapters (David meeting Saul twice in contradictory circumstances) this option was on the table — and I just couldn’t see a real literary repetition being worded like that.

“Its more reasonable to assume that the Biblical editor used a wide variety of sources in an ad hoc manner. ” — I don’t disagree — the narrative itself is coherent it’s just these particular paragraphs that seem to come from different sources.

As for YHWH vs Elohim, not sure what you mean that Lord is used throughout? One passage has YHWH and one has Elohim which is not a proof as I mentioned but does hint at separate sources.

]]> By: Helena http://anadder.com/davids-great-escape/comment-page-1#comment-50155 Helena Sun, 30 May 2010 14:19:42 +0000 http://anadder.com/?p=4168#comment-50155 Well, in 18 its mad'e clear that there is a pattern of behavior where Saul rewards David, then becomes jealous, tries to kill him, then clams down, rewards him him again and so son, so there obviously is no case of parallel sources. Also the documentary hypothesis was never to my knowledge invoked to split Samuel into discrete sources (in any case 'Lord' is used throughout except in the phrase 'Spirit of God' which is quite slender evidence to be going on anyway). In any case the classic form of the documentary hypothesis hasn't been used for some time. Its more reasonable to assume that the Biblical editor used a wide variety of sources in an ad hoc manner. There is certainly no reason to assume that 18 and 19 come from different sources. Well, in 18 its mad’e clear that there is a pattern of behavior where Saul rewards David, then becomes jealous, tries to kill him, then clams down, rewards him him again and so son, so there obviously is no case of parallel sources. Also the documentary hypothesis was never to my knowledge invoked to split Samuel into discrete sources (in any case ‘Lord’ is used throughout except in the phrase ‘Spirit of God’ which is quite slender evidence to be going on anyway). In any case the classic form of the documentary hypothesis hasn’t been used for some time. Its more reasonable to assume that the Biblical editor used a wide variety of sources in an ad hoc manner. There is certainly no reason to assume that 18 and 19 come from different sources.

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