Saul was anointed the first king of Israel, but it was a failed kingship, and it is a wonder that God's first anointed could fail. Apparently, the unforgivable sin of disobedience was the cause of Saul's disgrace; he did not exterminate the tribe of Amalakites and destroy all th…
The research assumption is that the story of David and the Gibeonites does not praise David's behavior and actions in the story, as many scholars think, but rather criticizes him. The study's method is one of literary analysis according to Meir Weiss' method and Moshe Garsiel's …
This study addresses the problem of the composition of 2 Sam 21-24. In the first part of the study, a review of the history of scholarly opinion on the problem helps bring a refined definition to the term "composition," which is taken in this study to refer to the particular arr…
This study examines the interaction between the Gospel of Mark's passion narrative (Mark 14–16) and the Psalms of Individual Lament (PssLam) evoked in the Markan passion narrative. First, I argue for the evocation of four PssLam (LXX Psalms 21, 40, 41–42, and 68) in six places i…