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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0042-4935
- eISSN
- 1568-5330
- DOI
- 10.1163/156853304323018927
- Publisher site
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Abstract
THE PATRIARCHAL NARRATIVES IN THE BOOKS OF SAMUEL by DOMINIC RUDMAN Hants, United Kingdom I. Introduction In a recent note in this journal, Sean McDonough outlined an important parallel, hitherto unnoticed, between II Samuel xxiv-I Kings i and Genesis xxiii-xxiv. The former text describes how King David, “old and well-advanced in years” ( zqn b " bymym —I Kgs i 1) purchased the threshing oor of Araunah. The latter, how Abraham, likewise “old and well-advanced in years” ( zqn b " bymym —Gen xxiv 1) bought a cave at Machpelah as a burial site. Abraham’s acquisition of this site is often understood to be the Ž rst step in the fulŽ llment of the divine promises made to him concerning Israel’s possession of the land of Canaan, while, for McDonough, David’s purchase from Araunah, a Jebusite (and so a member of the last Canaanite people to be dis- possessed), indicates the Ž nal fulŽ llment of the Abrahamic promises. 1 Parallels in theme and vocabulary between these texts point to a relationship that goes beyond coincidence. However, there are in the stories of David examples of a similar nature indicating a more wide- spread and imaginative use
Journal
Vetus Testamentum – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2004