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Samuel
שמואל he ܫܡܘܐܝܠ arc
Biblical prophet and main figure of the First Book of Samuel
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 1
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Dates unrecorded prophet
Family
The family of Samuel
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 4
Kinship in an account 4
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Elkanah husband of Hannah and father of Samuel in the Books of Samuel -
child of (child) Hannah biblical character mentioned in the Books of Samuel - parent of (child) Abijah male human biblical figure in 1 Samuel 8:2, judge of Israel, son of Samuel
- parent of (child) Joel biblical figure, son of Samuel (First Book of Samuel)
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 1
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Samuel Biblical prophet and main figure of the First Book of Samuel 
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
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Psalms
book of the Bible, has five books -
Acts of the Apostles
book of the New Testament -
Written 63 CEEpistle to the Hebrews
book of the Bible -
Jeremiah
book of the Bible -
First Book of Samuel
book of the Bible -
Written 2nd century BCESirach
Jewish wisdom text from the early 2nd century BCE, part of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox biblical canons -
First Book of Chronicles
book of the Christian Old Testament corresponding to the first half of the Book of Chronicles in the Hebrew Bible
Connections
How Samuel connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
17 statements on this record
- 4 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 13 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 collection membership. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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