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Line 1: {{Tanakh OT \|Nevi'im\|historical}} The two '''Books of Samuel''' ({{lang-he\|''Sefer Shmuel'' ספר שמואל}}) are part of the [[Deuteronomistic history]], a series of books in the [[Hebrew Bible]]/[[Old Testament]], ([[Book of Joshua\|Joshua]], [[Book of Judges\|Judges]], Samuel and [[Books of Kings\|Kings]]) that constitute a theological history of the [[Israelites]] which explains [[Torah\|God's law for Israel]] under the guidance of the prophets.{{sfn\|Gordon\|1986\|p=18}} According to Jewish tradition the book was written by Samuel, with additions by the prophets Gad and Nathan; modern scholarly thinking is that the entire history (called the [[Deuteronomistic history]]) was composed in the period c.630–540 BCE by combining a number of independent texts of various ages.{{sfn\|Knight\|1995\|p=348}}{{sfn\|Jones\|2001\|p=197}}

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