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- Ibid., 317n44.
- Here the chronology of Buber’s reconstructed narrative differs from the final text of 1
Samuel. Buber places the Ammonite attack roughly concurrent with the king-selection cer-
emony; the levy against the Philistines then follows, as the narrator assumes that by now “all
those whom the call reaches now know whom this Saul is, who calls them, and also knows this,
that he is able to make good on his threat ‘so shall be done with his oxen.’” Ibid., 330. - Ibid., 331.
- Ibid., 335 (Buber’s italics).
- Ibid., 341 (Buber’s italics).
- This is not to say that Buber considers Nathan to be a chronicler, although he does note
that of the four history narratives claimed by Leonhard Rost to descend from the Davidic-
Solomonic period, two of them feature Nathan in a significant position, and indeed one where
he demonstrates simultaneous fidelity to and critique of the monarchy. Ibid., 348. - Ibid., 343–344.
- Ibid., 344.
- Ibid., 364.