1) How Do We Define Samuel’s Character?
2) Samuel’s Heartless Treatment of Saul
3) Learning Goals at 92Y
4) How the Bible Could Help at Camp David
5) Hatred in Jerusalem, City of Peace
6) Elkanah, Hannah, and the Beginning of Samuel as Nazir
7) Cruelty from Peninah
8) A Parable: King and Meals
9) A Son on Loan?
10) Hannah’s Happiness & Its Influence on Our Liturgy
11) Samuel as Eli’s Successor: A Curse on Eli’s House?
12) A Father Punished for His Sons’ Crimes
13) Vayigdal: Samuel the Great Prophet
14) Defeating the Philistines
15) History Repeats Itself: Punished for the Sins of Sons
16) Be Careful What You Ask For: Saul As King
17) Why Was Samuel Resistant?
18) Following God’s Instructions
19) Saul’s Resistance
20) Saul’s Kingship: A King Against His Will
21) Attacked by the Common Man
22) Strong in Battle Against the Ammonites
23) A Secret Coronation
24) Samuel: A Scriptural Anomaly
25) Problems with His Protégé and Saul’s Downfall
26) Clashing After the Amalekites
27) The End of Saul’s Reign
28) Ordering the Deaths of Priests and Witches
29) David’s Appearance
30) Refusing to Kill Agag, Disobeying Samuel and God
31) Punished for His Humanity and His Transgression?
32) Samuel and Saul: Who Truly Served God?