Samuel and the Deuteronomist: A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History (Part 2: 1 Samuel)

The “literary turn” in OT scholarship largely occurred through readings of the Samuel narrative. Two such volumes, full of insights still not often found in other commentaries, are Robert Polzin’s Samuel and the Deuteronomist: 1 Samuel (Harper & Row, 1989) and David and the Deuteronomist: 2 Samuel (Indiana University Press, 1993). These volumes are also very readable. [Full Review]