5th lecture on the Book of Samuel. Samuel I, Chapter 5, including a discussion of polemic literature, specifically against idolatry, and the phenomenon of “qeri/ketiv” and “tiqqunei sopherim”

4th lecture on the Book of Samuel. Samuel I, Chapter 4, including an introduction to “mirror stories” (Pinhas’ wife and Rahel) and another example of the device “3+1”, as well as a brief excursus about the religious “confusion” of Aron-worship.

3rd lecture on the Book of Samuel. Samuel I, Chapter 3, including a discussion of several rhetorical devices used by T’nakh (“3+1”, the “leitwort”)

2nd lecture on the Book of Samuel. Samuel I, Chapter 2, including a brief introduction to the difference between Biblical prose and poetry

1st lecture on the Book of Samuel. Samuel I, Chapter 1, including an introduction to the book, a brief overview of narrative styles of the Bible and a brief foray into onomastics in the Bible.