Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT sil.org]

Ian, please don't put words into my mouth - or are you referring to 
another Peter? My suggestion was that originally both 2 Samuel and 1 
Chronicles (as well as 1 Samuel) named David as the killer of Goliath, 
but that the text of 2 Samuel became corrupted at a later date. I 
realise that that suggestion is not watertight and you are welcome to 
offer evidence of an alternative scenario. One alternative might be 
that the text of 2 Samuel became corrupted before the Chronicler 
copied from it and corrected it, but that is not what I said.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re[13]: Methods in biblical scholarship (Andrew)
Author:  <mc2499 AT mclink.it> at Internet
Date:    31/12/1999 22:18


At 18.55 31/12/99 -0000, Andrew Davies wrote:
>I don't agree with the attempts at harmonization that have been proposed 
>either, but, with respect, Ian, this is plain ridiculous.  It is possible, 
>though not to my mind the best explanation, to propose the existence of two 
>variant accounts which have both been used in Samuel, but how on earth can 
>you conclude they are written sources?

You mean two simultaneously current *oral* traditions reached our writer? 
Interestingly novel proposal. Let us assume for a moment that this was the 
case: not being written there is no reason to maintain the separate nature 
of them when putting them into writing. We have the epitomizer in 1Chr who 
coming across the two accounts on the death of Goliath in Samuel appears to 
have, like Peter, assumed that the writer was mistaken and harmonised the 
text -- an easy matter when the texts are in oral form or when epitomizing 
a longer work. It is more economical that the sources were already written 
and merely put together by the compiler of the text.


Cheers,


Ian


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