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Week 1: Introduction to the Course
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Week 2: Samuel: Judge of Prophecy
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Week 3: Saul
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Week 4: The Rise of David
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Week 5: The Character of David
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Week 6: David's Kingship
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Week 7: Bathsheba
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Week 8: David's Decline
Judge of Prophecy – Additional Resources
Recommended Readings:
- McCarter, 1 Samuel (Anchor Bible 8; New York: Doubleday, 1980), 49-221.
- P. D. Miller and J. J. M. Roberts, The Hand of the Lord: A Reassessment of the ‘Ark Narrative’ of 1 Samuel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1977.
Articles: (click to view)
- Samuel became the ‘first of later prophets‘, by Evelyn T. Marshall
- Samuel: Hebrew Prophet, Encyclopedia Britannica
Sermons: (click to view)
- Samuel, Judge, Priest and Prophet, by Tom Dowling
- Can You Hear Me Now?, by Ray Fowler
Lectures: (click to view)
YDS Old Testament Interpretation, Part 1 – Lecture 25, by Robert Wilson
Art: (click to view)
- Morgan Leaf, from the Winchester Bible: Opening for the Book of 1 Samuel
- Icon of the Prophet Samuel, 17th Century
- Annointing of David by Samuel, by Felix-Joseph Barrias
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