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The Song of Hannah is a poem interrupting the prose text of the Books of Samuel. According to the surrounding narrative, the poem (1 Samuel 2:1-10) was a prayer delivered by Hannah, to give thanks to God for the birth of her son, Samuel. It is very similar to Psalm 113.〔David Noel Freedman, “Psalm 113 and the Song of Hannah,” in ''Pottery, Poetry and Prophecy: Studies in Early Hebrew Poetry'' (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1980) 243 – 261.〕 ==Contents and themes== Hannah praises Yahweh, reflects on the reversals he accomplishes, and looks forward to his king. Verses 4-5 contains three reversals. Stanley D. Walters notes that one is a "reversal of macho male prowess", one a "reversal of female longing" and one is "gender-neutral and universal".〔Stanley D. Walters, "The Voice of God's People in Exile," ''Ex Auditu'' 10 (1994), 82.〕 There is a movement in this song from the particular to the general. It opens with Hannah's own gratitude for a local reversal, and closes with God's defeat of his enemies – a cosmic reversal.〔Walters, "The Voice of God's People in Exile," 76.〕 Through the theme of reversal, the Song of Hannah functions as an introduction to the whole book. Keil and Delitzsch argue that Hannah's experience of reversal was a pledge of how God "would also lift up and glorify his whole nation, which was at that time so deeply bowed down and oppressed by its foes."〔C. F. Keil and F. Delitzsch, ''Biblical Commentary on the Books of Samuel'' (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1872), 29.〕 The reference to a king in verse 10 has provoked considerable discussion. A. F. Kirkpatrick argues that this does not imply a late date for the song, since "the idea of a king was not altogether novel to the Israelite mind" and "amid the prevalent anarchy and growing disintegration of the nation, amid internal corruption and external attack, the desire for a king was probably taking definite shape in the popular mind."〔A. F. Kirkpatrick, ''The First Book of Samuel'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911), 55-56.〕 Walter Brueggemann suggests that the Song of Hannah paves the way for a major theme of the Book of Samuel, the "power and willingness of Yahweh to intrude, intervene and invert."〔Walter Brueggemann, ''First and Second Samuel'' (Interpretation; Louisville; John Knox, 1990), 21.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Song of Hannah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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