- The idea of placing stones to mark a place where God had helped the Israelites is a common occurrence in biblical literature. Where else does this occur and why might it have been done?
- This chapter seeks to connect the defeat of the Philistines and the reality that there was peace between Israel and the Amorites with what fact? Why is this connection salient?
- Read the first mishnahA collection of rabbinic teachings edited in Israel around 225 CE. Organized in six sedaraim by subject matter and dealing with both ritual and civil law. Both the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmud are expansive discussions of the Mishnah. of “Pirke Avot” and I Samuel 7:15 of this chapter to place Samuel in the chain of tradition leading back to Moses.
