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Chapters five and six are odd chapters. The main character is not a person. It is the Ark of the Covenant. The Philistines capture the Ark and place it in the temple of Dagon. Maybe this is the same temple that Samson destroyed. Each morning, the great statue of Dagon (either a fish god- connected to the Hebrew word <\/span>dag<\/span><\/em>, or a god of the harvest connected to the Hebrew word- <\/span>dagan<\/span><\/em>) is damaged. The Philistines then move the Ark to another town where everyone is inflicted with hemorrhoids or rats or both.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The text itself has a word that is written one way, and meant to be read another (<\/span>keri<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>ketiv<\/span><\/em>). The written word is <\/span>afelim<\/span><\/em> and the read word is <\/span>techorim<\/span><\/em>. Rashi explains that the word is related to rats. When the Philistines were using the restroom, rats would crawl into their exposed parts and damage their bowels. Radak explains that this was a plague that caused constipation due to inflammation inside the body. Why hemorrhoids? The only other time this word appears outside this story is in the verses of rebuke in Deuteronomy. \u201cGod will strike you with the Egyptian inflammation, with hemorrhoids, boil-scars, and itch, from which you shall never recover\u201d (Deuteronomy 28:27). The list includes different types of boils and skin inflammation (with the most famous the Egyptian kind from the plagues). Hemorrhoids are connected to these boils as they are an internal inflammation.\u00a0 Chizkuni explains that these were an internal disease that could not be cured by normal medical means.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps this verse offers two explanations for this punishment. The first is that God wanted to inflict the Philistines for something that would match what they were doing. The Philistines took that Ark and tried to keep it inside their holy places away from Israelites. In response, God afflicts them inside their bodies in a place that is difficult to get to. The other possibility has to do with a concern the Philistines expressed in chapter 4: \u201c\u2019Woe to us! Who will save us from the power of this mighty God? He is the same God who struck the Egyptians with every kind of plague in the wilderness!\u2019\u201d (4:8). There, the Philistines feared God when the Ark was brought to battle. Now that they captured it, they thought they had defeated and captured the God of the Israelites. 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In the previous chapter, 1 Samuel, ch. 4, the Philistines defeated the Israelites in battle and captured the Ark of the Covenant. \u00a0In this chapter, 1 Samuel, ch. 5, the Philistines bring the Ark from Eben-Ezer to Ashdod and position it before the statue of Dagon in the temple to Dagon.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This action is consistent with ancient Near Eastern practice, for the sources reveal that booty and trophies captured during warfare were placed within the temples of the victorious nation. \u00a0For a famous example, note Hammurabi\u2019s Code (now in the Louvre), not an idol or a statue <\/span>per <\/span><\/em>se<\/span><\/i>, but rather a stele on which was inscribed the famous collection of laws. \u00a0It was written by Hammurabi, king of Babylon, c. 1750 B.C.E., but it was discovered by archaeologists in the Elamite city of Susa (modern-day southwestern Iran), as it was carried off to Susa by Shutruk-Nakhunte (1185\u20131155 B.C.E.), the Elamite conqueror of Babylon, along with a statue of Marduk and other items. \u00a0In light of such parallels, it is no surprise that the Philistines placed the captured Ark of the Covenant in the temple of Dagon in the city of Ashdod.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Nowhere does the book of Samuel refer to further Philistine penetration into Israelite territory, but presumably such must have occurred. \u00a0Both Jeremiah 7:12-14 and Psalm 78:60 refer to the destruction of Shiloh in days past, and while neither text provides a date for this event, nor the name of those responsible, scholars assume that the devastation was wrought by the Philistines. \u00a0It would have been quite natural for the Philistines to continue eastward after the battle of Eben-Ezer across the tribal allotment of Ephraim en route to Shiloh. If it did not happen on this occasion, then perhaps such occurred during or after a different conflict between the two neighboring peoples. \u00a0To be sure, the archaeological excavations at Shiloh reveal that the city was abandoned in the 11th century B.C.E., the chronological setting of our story in the book of Samuel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Back to the main story in 1 Samuel, ch. 5: \u00a0the Philistines presumably believed that their defeat of the Israelites and their capture of the Ark implied that their god Dagon (or gods generally) had defeated Yahweh the god of the Israelites. \u00a0The biblical writer will have none of this, though, for as 1 Samuel 5 demonstrates, he believes that the Ark of Yahweh has special qualities which override the powers of the Philistine cultic objects, and hence Yahweh remains supreme over Dagon and any other deities.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In one of the final scenes of \u201cRaiders of the Lost Ark,\u201d the Ark unleashes grotesque ghost-like figures that cause death to all about them. Was this just artistic license or could it have a basis in Scripture?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In this brief chapter, we learn about the Ark\u2019s impact on the Philistines who kept it after its capture. First, it struck down the statue of Dagon in Ashdod (the same god whose temple in Gaza was brought down by Samson, cf. Judges 16) but the Philistines paid it no mind (3). Then it knocked it down again, this time causing its head and hands to fall off while the general population was smitten with hemorrhoids (3-4). It was then moved to Gat whose population was likewise stricken with hemorrhoids (10), so it was moved to Ekron where yet another outbreak of hemorrhoids occurred (12). The only resolution the Philistines offered was to return the Ark whence it came (11) lest it cause a pandemic. In their own words: \u201cLet it go back to its own place, that it slay us not, and our people\u201d (11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Two things about the divine manner of the Philistines\u2019 chastisement are noteworthy. First of all, God delivered a warning before actually unleashing the grievous plague. It was the obtuseness of the Philistines, who attributed no significance to the initial fall of the Dagon statue, which necessitated a second round of punishment. Secondly, God struck both Dagon and its worshippers just as He had earlier struck both the gods of Egypt and their worshippers (Exodus 12:12), in order to demonstrate the futility of their idolatry.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Whether Raiders\u201d director Steven Spielberg or its writer Lawrence Kasdan took any note of our chapter cannot be determined, but his insinuation that tampering with the Ark unleashed malign forces is consistent with our reading.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In describing what is lost as well as what is gained in unifying the Israelite tribes under a single dynastic monarch, the Book of Samuel provides us with our earliest account of the arduous, contested, and historically contingent emergence of this worldly sovereignty. The centralization of political-military authority is admittedly accompanied by priestly anointment and bestowed by the grace of God. But as will become evident as the narrative unfolds, sovereign authority is actually consolidated much less sacramentally, through a hard fought struggle, by tactically ingenious applications of force and fraud deployed to overcome considerable human resistance.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To summarize: A thoroughly human and demythologized political sphere emerged in a space that had been opened between the two basic alternatives that characterized much of the ancient Near East and the prior biblical tradition. That purely human political domain constituted the baseline condition that made possible the book\u2019s distinctive voice and its unblinkingly observant and critical perspective on human politics. In its richly detailed account of this pivotal political breakthrough, the Book of Samuel infused the moment of origin with a deep ambivalence. The narrative notoriously lacks the celebratory features that usually accompany any coronation or heroic founding of a new political regime. Instead, this moment of origin is starkly colored by Samuel\u2019s, and especially God\u2019s, resentment. The pervasive shadow of divine resentment is what differentiates the all-too-human world of biblical politics from a cloudlessly secular or \u201cdisenchanted\u201d realm. Our author is acutely aware of the troubles and tragedies of the political endeavor on the one hand and of its irresistible necessity on the other. The entire book is marked by a refusal to shield its readers from this excruciating but truthful ambivalence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As our exploration widens and deepens, we will address a series of deep puzzles that the Book of Samuel presents. From which point of view, if not that of a political partisan, is the book written? Is the author an insider to politics or an outsider? Is he someone from the court or at its margin? What was the vantage point from which such an astonishingly original book could have been produced? \u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026The author does not exactly tell the story from God\u2019s point of view, admittedly. Yet the book was certainly fueled and inspired by what the narrator imagined to be God\u2019s viewpoint\u2026God\u2019s ambivalence toward the political realm permeates the book with its nuanced and exploratory yet smolderingly critical force. Precisely because of its uncomfortable ambivalence, therefore, the Book of Samuel sets forth the proper attitude that should be assumed toward the political project as a whole. Illuminated from this systematically ambivalent stance, politics is seen as an overpowering human necessity that can never fully escape a potentially self-defeating betrayal at its very core.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Excerpts from The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes, Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 14-16. 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In reading through the Jewish liturgical canon, we come upon a number of punishments fairly regularly: stoning, exile, and death, to name a few. And while we may come to expect punishments to arise in the text every so often, there are some punishments that stand out as peculiar. In chapter 5 of I Samuel, the Philistines capture the Ark of God and bring it to three cities. In Ashdod, Gath, and Ekron, respectively, the ark is brought and God\u2019s wrath rains down upon the inhabitants of each city in the form of hemorrhoids, which causes them excruciating pain and eventually leads them to send the ark to the next city.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What significance does this odd affliction of hemorrhoids possess? Perhaps the hemorrhoids are meant to shock the afflicted into actively noticing and recognizing something that is so basic to them that they take it for granted\u2014the ability to use the bathroom. And just as those who are afflicted with hemorrhoids suddenly realize that there is a miraculous part of their life they had forgotten to be thankful for, so too should the Jewish people be shocked when the Ark (and the Torah), which they have taken for granted many times in history, is ripped from their possession.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cItching and Burning in Ekron\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Michael Howald: What is this mysterious affliction?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cCry, Cry, Cry and Hashem Will Redeem You!\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Mordechai Lewis: The power of tears in Jewish sources.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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