The history of Israel from the birth of Samuel to the death of Saul is recorded in the book known to us as I Samuel. Originally the two books of Samuel were one. The translators of the Greek ...

The opening chapters of the book of Samuel recall the desolation, despair, and redemption of Samuel's mother, Chana. Yet many view this story as only a prologue to the birth of Samuel, the great ...

The Masoretic version of the book of Samuel is notoriously difficult from a textcritical perspective. Scholars have long suspected that this situation reflects a particularly corrupt scribal tradition ...

A group of Israeli and international scholars has employed computer-assisted word-frequency analysis to pioneer a new method that may show who wrote the Bible and redacted it some 2,800 years ago.