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Samuel 18-26 Script

Narrator: David followed Saul’s orders and was successful wherever he was sent. Saul gave david command of the army and David was successful, but problems arose when David returned from killing the philistines.

Generic girls: Saul has killed thousands, and David his ten thousands!

Saul: They ascribe to me thousands and to David ten thousands. What more could he have but the kingdom. I better keep an eye on david.

~The next day~

Saul: Now’s my chance, while David is playing his Lyre I’ll pin him to the wall. *throws spear at david twice, David dodges both times*
He dodged my spears! I’ll just send him out with the army, that will get rid of him!

Narrator: It seems strange in this passage that David would just continue on as normal after Saul has attacked him. This episode is not in the Septuagint and may have been added in anticipation of later events.

~Later~

Saul *Aside* I know how to get rid of david. I’ll have him marry my daughter and in return he’ll fight in the wars. That way the philistine’s can kill him. *to david* David! Have my elder Daughter Merab, in return you can fight the lord’s battles.

David: Oh that’s okay, I’m not important enough to be the son-in-law of the king.

Saul: *Aside* well maybe Michal will tempt him *to servant* Tell david you’re cool, everyone likes you, you should become the king’s son in law. *servant goes to david*

David: I don’t know. It seems like a big deal. I’m just a poor average guy. *servant goes back to Saul*

Saul: Tell him I don’t want any bride price except for 100 foreskins of the philistine’s *servant goes back to David*

David: That’s it? Awesome!

Narrator: So David went out and slayed 100 philistine’s and brought back their foreskins to Saul and married Michal. Saul realized The Lord was with David and became much more afraid. So he told Jonathan of his plans to kill David.
Jonathan: David hasn’t done anything wrong. He’s gone to war for you and done well, you’re just people paranoid.

Saul: oh alright, I won’t kill David.

Narrator: Again David went off to war and was successful and Saul was afraid, So again he waited when David was playing his Lyre and threw a spear at him. The spear missed and David fled.

David: Michal Saul is trying to kill me!

Michal: You go hide. I’ll put the idol in your bed and pretend it’s you

David: *leaves*

Servant: *enters* We’re here for David

Michal: he’s sick

Servant: Well we’ll bring the bed *they take the bed and it’s discovered it’s a fake.*

Saul: This isn’t david, it’s just an idol in his bed. Why have you tricked me?

Michal: David told me “let me go, why should I kill you”

~Later~

David* to jonathan* Why is your dad trying to kill me I haven’t done anything wrong!

Jonathan: No, he tells me everything, why would he hide this from me?

David: I’m serious he has it out for me

Jonathan: Alright I’ll talk to him.

David: There’s the feast tomorrow. I’ll hide here in the fields if he misses me say “David had to go to Bethlehem where there’s a yearly sacrifice for the family” If he says “good” then everything is great, but if he gets mad then he wants to kill me.

Jonathan: I’ll have a servant come into the field with me and I’ll shoot an arrow. If I tell the servant to collect the arrows to the side of you, you’re wanted. If I have the servant search behind you must flee.

~Later at Dinner~
Saul: Where is David, His place is empty

Jonathan: There’s a yearly sacrifice for the family in Bethlehem

Saul: that is not okay!

Narrator: so Jonathan told David what happened and David escaped. David travelled and gained followers through his good actions, in the meantime Saul was searching for David. He’d heard was nearby, and followed with his army, but David came across where Saul was sleeping and snuck in, cutting a piece of his robe.

Generic Male *to David*: Hey, we have him here, we should just kill him. That solves the problem right?

David: No, the Lord does not want me to kill him, it isn’t right to kill my master. *leave tent goes to the edge of camp* Hey Saul!

Saul: *wakes up* huh?

David: Why do you think I’m trying to kill you? Look, I got a piece of your robe, but I didn’t kill you. I didn’t do anything. The Lord will judge us and avenge me, but I won’t hurt you

Saul: Is that you David? You’re a better man than I. You’ve treated me well and I treated you badly. But promise you’re not going to kill me or my descendents.

David: I promise.

~later!

Narrator: Samuel died

Samuel: bleh *falls over*

What have I learned?

Another blog to go over what I've been doing in the radio silence of this blog. The Test went well. I'm glad I passed this time. I spelled their wrong in the essays...rather embarrassing really.

I've decided that the thing I have mostly been learning is that fact that I really ought to take a blog writing course. >.> I still just see them as a little random journal entry. Oh well. it's too late to make a fantastically amazing blog.

In terms of my paper thesis

I would like to write my term paper over the importance of mythology to understanding the bible. As we have all come to learn the bible is not something easily read, and even after reading remembering each rule is a daunting task. Remembering the mythos and stories of the bible help us to remember and understand these rules presented. This is seen prominently in The Slave with Jacob, as he deals with his slavery he recalls stories in association with the rules, particularly when he questions these rules.

The Slave II

More reading of the slave. I seemed to stop at a good place last time, and now I'm taking a break to write this after Jacob has rescued and brought back to his home town.

The story has really reminded me of Joseph so far. Jacob was a good jew just as Joseph was a good son. They were both sold into slavery and made good slaves, despite the fact jacob was a scholar and knew very little of being a cowherd he ended up with some of the best cows in the town and they both are tempted by a mistress. Then it seems to fall through a bit when the ransom is paid.
I didn't like this part as much. I suppose once he gives in to wanda a lot of the conflict is gone. I suppose I should have been worried for his life as well but I'm a bit of a Meta-reader and was well aware there was much more story to be told. So really I hope it does pick up. I just thought the similarity to joseph was very interesting. I've gotten to the part now where he has gotten back to town and his sister tells him of the tortures...I can be one sick puppy myself. I firmly believe that my study in literature has really desensitized me to some of this stuff, but some of those descriptions had me shocked, and I really needed a break before my imaginaton ran away with me. ew...just....ew.
I do find Jacob's questions to be very interesting. They seem to grow deeper and more troubling as the story continues, but maybe that is my meta reading. We're all okay with joseph being a slave, because in the end it has a purpose for a greater good which we can see, just as jacob's suffering may do that, but Job really bothers perople, me in particular, with the seemingly pointless suffering presented, just as the mass murder of the people of josefov is incredibly disturbing and doesn't seem to have much of a point.

I think I must stop now, those images are getting to me. I will note that the names of the girls tortured had me confused for a moment, for a brief moment I thought they were referencing the terrible things that happened to biblical Dinah and such for reference. I'm not sure if that is very important though, or if it's just to point out similar situations and such.

Also for some random filler. Wanda is a german name which means Kindred. And now you have a useless fact of the day

Another mediocre post

I feel the need to write something, it makes me feel better. Right now I think I'm having a mini panic attack, my chest feels tight and everything has gotten a bit surreal...I've written out the due dates for things in November and...I'm honestly scared. I suppose this happens every year, all the classes love to cram everything right before thanksgiving break, and by the time you get a glorious two day break you're worn out. Still the work ahead seems to have almost "biblical" proportions.

The large project looming now is the term paper. So I think I shall just write out my options and thoughts.

First, writing what I have learned. well there's certainly a lot there, I learned about the more metaphorical language the bible is written in. The P, J, E, D, and R writers and other scholastic type things. Honestly however that seems a bit vanilla to me. I'm sure someone else can write a fantastic paper on that, but I personally can't think of a way to write a good paper on it, mostly just tidbits, and if I could do that well this blog would be far more interesting to read.

So in terms of picking my own topic. I would greatly enjoy writing on folktales and mythologies.

One thought I had was comparing the creation stories with other creation stories in mythologies.

I also had the thought of looking at superstitions and seeing what parts of the bible they might have roots in, but the only thing that really comes to mind is the Lilith story, so I suppose that doesn't count.

Revelation is a book in new testament I like. The only one that I've read all the way through and actually tried to study (before this class)
Maybe comparing those visions with some other apocalypse type myths.

Another part I was interested in was the similarities of modern christian thoughts and images and older icons. for instance there is a theory i know of that satan is stylized after Pan in order to discredit Pan and get more people to turn from paganism to christianity. see similarities with Pan and Satan There's also the stuff like easter, halloween, so on...

Anyone else have ideas dealing with folktales or myths?