{"id":56939,"date":"2019-06-05T18:05:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=56939"},"modified":"2022-12-27T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T20:25:12","slug":"samuel-receives-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/samuel-receives-the-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Receives The Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[506,541,839],"acf":{"old_id":"56939","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":56490,"related_cahpter":"235","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This chapter belongs to the genre known as the \u201cCall Narrative,\u201d which appears elsewhere in the Bible (in whole or in part) with Moses, Gideon, Saul, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Second Isaiah. \u00a0Most of these individuals, as one can see from this list, including Samuel, are called to prophecy \u2013 though in the cases of Gideon and Saul the call is to leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In all instances of the Call Narrative, either the individual does not understand that he is receiving the divine word and\/or he objects to the call to leadership (prophetic or otherwise) \u2013 most famously, consider the story of Moses at the Burning Bush scene. \u00a0God continues with reassurance and promises of assistance, however, and the commission is realized and implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few linguistic features are noteworthy here. \u00a0First, v. 1 includes the only usage of the word <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u1e25azon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2018vision\u2019 (in the sense of \u2018prophetic vision\u2019) in the entire long narrative of Genesis through Kings. \u00a0Typically the noun is used in prophetic texts, including in superscriptions (Isaiah 1:1, Obadiah 1, Nahum 1:1).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second, v. 4 includes the only instance of the formula <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wayyiqra\u02be yhwh \u02beel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, lit. \u201cand the LORD called to,\u201d in the entire Bible. \u00a0Similar wordings appear in Genesis 3:9, Exodus 19:20, Leviticus 1:1, but only here at 1 Samuel 3:4 does this precise wording occur. \u00a0Presumably, the ancient reader would have apprehended the special nature of the phrase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three times God calls out to Samuel (vv. 4, 6, 8), but each time the young attendant in the Tabernacle believes that Eli is calling to him. \u00a0Finally, God calls out to Samuel a fourth time (v. 10), this time addressing him with the invocation \u201cSamuel, Samuel.\u201d The reader, and now Samuel, understands the import of the crucial expression, for the repeated name occurs only very rarely in biblical narrative: \u00a0\u201cAbraham, Abraham,\u201d during the Aqedah (Genesis 22:11); \u201cJacob, Jacob,\u201d before he travels to Egypt (Genesis 46:2); \u201cMoses, Moses,\u201d at the burning bush scene (Exodus 3:4); and now with Samuel. 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