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After the death of Saul, his top general sets up a puppet king, and the House of Saul goes to war with the House of David.
Archive for the ‘Tanakh notes’ Category
November 25th, 2007
Category: Tanakh notes
David becomes King of Judah, and fights with the servants of Saul’s son Ishbosheth, Abner’s puppet King of Israel.
March 5th, 2007
Category: Tanakh notes
The “witch” of Endor summons the ghost of Samuel to appear to Saul.
February 25th, 2007
Category: Tanakh notes
David raids a bunch of villages, and kills everyone in them so that his perfidy toward his Philistine overlord will remain secret. There is no hint, in text or tradition, that David is wrong to do so. This is a holy book?
February 19th, 2007
Category: Tanakh notes
The cave at En-gedi and the hillside at Hachilah: David twice spares Saul’s life.
January 31st, 2007
Category: Tanakh notes
Saul continues his pursuit of David; David spares his life, shocking him into a brief moment of lucidity.
May 1st, 2006
Category: Tanakh notes
The Jacob Hirshleifer Tanakh Study Group at UCLA continues to work its way through First Samuel; at the jump are the notes on our last two meetings, which discussed Chapter 16, the selection of David as king and his introduction to the court of Saul.
