Sa mu el 368 are, however, some small, insignificant differences, which are insignifi - cant to our topic . Therefore, we move to the concluding formula . The author of Samuel points to the total score of four personal victories, while the Chronicler omits the number, probably because he omitted the first anecdote and did not see any point in changing the reduced total to three . He even kept Samuel’s version that the giants fell into David and his warriors’ hands, even though none of the anecdotes in Chronicles’ text is related to David’s personal exploit, since the author of Chronicles did not adopt the identification of Elhanan with David . Yet the Chronicler probably had in mind the original story of David and Goliath ( since he introduces Lahmi as Goliath’s brother ) , so he latently preserves David’s share in the concluding formula . Besides the textual differences in the parallel sources, it is worth evaluating their differences especially in their various general contexts . The...
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