For Thursday's (2/20) class, please read/review I Samuel 1-14 and then finish up the book (reading through Chapter 31). Does this book seem to you to be best classified as history, prophecy, biography, tragedy, or something else entirely? Cite one passage/story in this book that you think particularly supports your view of this book.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
I Samuel--Discussion II
For Thursday's (2/20) class, please read/review I Samuel 1-14 and then finish up the book (reading through Chapter 31). Does this book seem to you to be best classified as history, prophecy, biography, tragedy, or something else entirely? Cite one passage/story in this book that you think particularly supports your view of this book.
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I agree with my classmates that 1 Samuel can be categorized as a history, biography, tragedy, or a prophecy. When I read it, I viewed it a a prophecy of what's to come as the world transitions away from religious figures leading
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ReplyDeleteI viewed it as a prophecy of what will happen as the world transitions from a place run by religious figures to one run by politicians. And the results are tragic because they
It's tragic because people are veering away from God
ReplyDeleteTo me this book seems to be a mixture of a biography and history due to the way it has such a dedicated chronology of events. It first covers Samuel's back story and how he came to be judge and than how the people of Israel wanted a king. The book proceeds to go through all the technicalities of how the king is to be chosen and then moves on to the actions of Saul for a bit. Then when David is anointed king it shows his life and than proceeds to give account of his actions. Thus it seems to be a mixture of both biography and history by both providing details of the origins of the characters involved and giving the technical details of how these events came to pass.
ReplyDelete1 Samuel 12, especially the second half of the chapter, is a great example of what happens throughout the whole book and even the whole Old Testament. To me, the book of Samuel is symbolic of not only all the cyclical tragedy that is to come, but also a biography of the people.The people are oppressed, they cry out, they are saved, things are great for a while before the people begin to sin or turn away from God, He punishes them, they are oppressed, they cry out, etc., etc. Samuel narrates this as he makes his exit from leadership in this passage.
ReplyDeleteI personally don't think that the I Samuel has a specific classification. There is point in time where it seems to fit on genre more than the other. Like in the battle sense it seems like it could be classified under history. Saul's suicide could be under tragedy (because he felt like that was the last option for him) and historical (because it is an even that happened). It seems like prophecy when Abigail is talking to David trying to stop him from taking revenge out on her Husband Napal, with all of the thing that God can do and grant and ect. And it seems like the biography of David at this point because it is mainly following David's life and all of his actions.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion it just seems like it could be all of these mixed into one story.