Thursday 23 October 2008

1 samuel

such a confusion of stories!
samuel's here,
jonathan's there,
and a plethora of other accounts too.
all cut, pasted,
and heaped with contradiction.
[but did david or saul have a say?]

'here's all the evidence', says the patient scribe
'you decide!'

and while we're about it,
2 samuel should be called
the book of david.

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