Old Testament

The story of 1 Samuel has a truly interesting beginning. It speaks just about a man named Elkanah and his cardinal wives Hannah and Penninah. Penninah had minorren only Hannah did non amaze any because the lord had closed her womb. Now being their two wives, one is unceasingly lucky more than the other and Elkanah favored Hannah heretofore though she had not bore him any children. This is instead the opposite from the story of Abraham.

In the story of Abraham, when Sarah, his wife did not bore him any children, he went to her slavegirl for a child. Now Abraham love his wife, but more than anything he wanted a watchword and Hagar the slavegirl gave him one. In my opinion, for this I would think that Abraham might favor Hagar some more at the moment because of his new give-and-take.

Although the stories are very opposite, I think that Abraham and Hannah some(prenominal) rent something in common. They both are not exactly happy with what they have. We hear of this everyday. No matter what we have in life we are forever and a day looking for just a little bit more. In Abrahams case, he wanted a give-and-take and would not stop at sleeping with the slavegirl to get one. In Hannahs case, she wanted a child as well but did not go to such drastic measures. Instead she prayed to the Lord but said shed give him up to him.

warp comments that it is the womans duty to bore children. He said, in all the annunciation stories must be understood in unhorse of the prevalent ancient Near Eastern view that a womans one great avenue to fulfilment in life was through the bearing of sons. (Alter, p.4). In repartee to this, along with the fact that she is willing to just give her son up after she wanted one so unsuitable leads me to believe that maybe Hannah doesnt want a son of her own to love. But like Alter says, just to fill her duty as a woman. Another reason may be because of all the tormenting she deals with. Does she maybe want a child to prove something to Penninah? This also reminds me of Abraham because after he gets a son of his own from Sarah, God tests him and asks him to sacrifice his child.



If he wanted a child so much and went to such great measures to have them, why would he even think of sacrificing his child? Is it once again because of the fulfillment of a son following your footsteps? All of the stories canvas so far have given some salmagundi of lesson to me. Its like these stories are the start of what our society is make up of today. We all want things in life and we always do everything possible to get those things that we want. But half the time, we begettert even think about whats truly behind those things that we want. Does the yearning for what we want come from our heart? Or do we just think its from our heart when real its just to prove something to someone else or to ourselves even? We can all look at our own lives and believably fit or have fit into this situation and in most cases we probably werent being true to ourselves.

whole kit Cited 1- Alter, Robert. The David Story. New York: W. W. Norton & Compan

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