Sa mu el 14 his study to the story cycle of David’s rise to power . L . Rost ( 1982 ) concentrated on the Succession Narrative that depicts the continuous struggle between various rivals for the succession to David’s throne . The studies of the development of the story cycles created the impres - sion that the Book of Samuel in its advanced shape is a product of the combination of sequential story collections . Therefore, it deserves a worthy endeavor tracing back the development of the tradition col - lections and exposing its initial small components, its form, features, and style . These small units, after being attached together, constituted the large collections that later became the Book of Samuel close to its final form . This diachronic endeavor to study the history of the Bible’s traditions was designated traditio - historical analysis . In early Swedish and Scandinavian scholarship, however, the main effort was placed on the study of oral traditions that had been handed down ...
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