JPS Bible Commentary: 1 Samuel

Gary A. Rendsburg is Distinguished Professor and Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair in Jewish History at Rutgers University. He is the author of How the Bible Is Written and the coauthor of The Bible and the Ancient Near East, as well as the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous other volumes. He also served as an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSABBREVIATIONSHEBREW CONVENTIONS  INTRODUCTION TO THE COMMENTARYBasic Facts about the Book of SamuelThe Text of the Book of SamuelQumran and the SeptuagintThe Name of the Book in the Various Traditions (and Its Division into Chapters)Paragraph BreaksDate of CompositionInterconnections between Samuel and Genesis History and ArchaeologyMonarchyLiterary and Compositional Style ChronologyThe World of Ancient IsraelTransliteration SchemeThe Hebrew Text and the English TranslationCommentaries and Works CitedCommentaries Not CitedTable 1: Transliteration SchemeNOTES  THE COMMENTARY TO 1 SAMUEL 1‒31NOTES  EXCURSUSES The Duke of Sussex Italian Bible The Barren Woman and Younger Son MotifsNon-Levites Serving as Priests AlliterationRepetition with VariationMonolatry and Monotheism4QSama and Josephus to 1 Samuel 11Interconnections between the Book of Samuel and the Book of Genesis The Geography of God The Book of Samuel in the Jewish TraditionHannah’s Prayer Monarchy Suicide NOTES    APPENDICESAppendix A: Open and Closed Paragraphs (petuḥot and setumot)in the Four Major Early CodicesAppendix B: Sections of 1 Samuel read as Haftarot  BIBLIOGRAPHY  MAPS

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