Cover -- SAMUEL AND HIS GOD -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Samuel in the Bible -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2: SOURCES OF THE SAMUEL STORIES -- "The Bible" -- Ancient Customs of Authorship -- Evidence of Layers in 1 Samuel: A First Glance -- The Deuteronomistic History -- The Prophetic Record -- Too Much Analysis of Layers? -- Was It Ever Meant to Be Read All at Once? -- CHAPTER 3: THE MANY ROLES OF SAMUEL -- Priest -- Judge -- Ideas and Ideals of Prophecy -- Samuel as Prophet -- Summary -- CHAPTER 4: THE PROBLEMATIC GOD OF SAMUEL -- What Lord Does -- Lord and Hannah: Caring for the Little People? -- Lifting the Poor: Hannah's Song (1 Samuel 2:1-10) -- Lord's Attitudes -- Reflections -- CHAPTER 5: A SEQUENTIAL READING OF SAMUEL -- Samuel's Earliest Years (1 Samuel 1-2) -- Samuel's Calling (1 Samuel 3:1-4:1) -- Interlude of Absence (1 Samuel 4:2-7:2) -- Samuel as Judge (1 Samuel 7:3-17) -- Request for Kingship (1 Samuel 8) -- Samuel Designates Saul (1 Samuel 9:1-10:27) -- Saul Steps Forward (1 Samuel 11) -- Samuel's Farewell Speech? (1 Samuel 12) -- Prophet and King: Round 1 (1 Samuel 13:1-15a) -- The Missing Prophet (1 Samuel 13:15b-14:52) -- Prophet and King: Round 2 (1 Samuel 15) -- A New Era Begins (1 Samuel 16:1-13) -- The Fading of Samuel (1 Samuel 19:18-24 and 25:1) -- Encore (1 Samuel 28:3-25) -- CHAPTER 6: SAMUEL, HIS GOD, AND US -- Samuel -- God -- Us -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Scripture Index -- Hebrew Word Index -- Topic Index.