Big Ideas · 18 · Hannah and Samuel

Self-reliance isn't manhood

Kings often embodied ideal masculinity. By humanizing them, the Bible's stories also reject self-sufficiency as essential to being a man.

Partnership over bravado.

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David's fame is credited to the women who sang his praises and to God, who promised to make his name great.

Bible reference: 2 Samuel 7:9

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 294–295

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