No doubt the Rabbis were following 1 Chronicles 29:29, which can be
read as suggesting precisely this.
So, has anyone before NPL claimed that Samuel wrote the whole of these
books?
Peter Kirk
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Subject: Re: Methods in biblical scholarship
Author: <yonsaf AT beitberl.beitberl.ac.il> at Internet
Date: 28/12/1999 13:05
>>PK: Who before NPL has ever claimed that Samuel did write the books of
>>Samuel?
The Rabbis, B.T. Baba Bathra 14b-15a. But even they say that after
Samuel's death (I Sam. 25) the book was continued by the prophets Gad
and Nathan.
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Jonathan D. Safren
Dept. of Biblical Studies
Beit Berl College
Beit Berl Post Office 44905
Israel
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