Hannah at Pentecost

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" Hannah at Pentecost "
Reed Carlson

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1079717
Doc. No	:	LA123346
Call No	:	‭10.1163/17455251-02702005‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Reed Carlson
Title & Author	:	Hannah at Pentecost [Article]\ Reed Carlson
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Pentecostal Theology
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	27/2
Page No	:	245–258
Abstract	:	This essay argues that Hannah’s story in 1 Samuel 1–2 is an example of a ‘spirit phenomenon’ in the Hebrew Bible. The story displays an uncanny sensitivity to Hannah’s psychological state, which is consistent with how spirit language is used as self-language in biblical literature. Hannah describes herself as a ‘woman of hard spirit’ (1 Sam. 1.15) and engages in a kind of trance, which is disruptive enough to draw the attention of Eli. Through inner-biblical allusion and intentional alterations in the Old Greek and Dead Sea Scroll versions of 1 Samuel, Hannah comes to be associated with other prophetic women in biblical literature. Several Second Temple Jewish interpreters read Hannah as a prophetess and as a practitioner of spirit ecstasy, culminating in Philo’s association of Hannah with Bacchic possession and in Hannah’s experience at Shiloh serving as a model for Pentecost in the book of Acts. This essay argues that Hannah’s story in 1 Samuel 1–2 is an example of a ‘spirit phenomenon’ in the Hebrew Bible. The story displays an uncanny sensitivity to Hannah’s psychological state, which is consistent with how spirit language is used as self-language in biblical literature. Hannah describes herself as a ‘woman of hard spirit’ (1 Sam. 1.15) and engages in a kind of trance, which is disruptive enough to draw the attention of Eli. Through inner-biblical allusion and intentional alterations in the Old Greek and Dead Sea Scroll versions of 1 Samuel, Hannah comes to be associated with other prophetic women in biblical literature. Several Second Temple Jewish interpreters read Hannah as a prophetess and as a practitioner of spirit ecstasy, culminating in Philo’s association of Hannah with Bacchic possession and in Hannah’s experience at Shiloh serving as a model for Pentecost in the book of Acts.
Descriptor	:	ecstasy
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	intertextuality
Descriptor	:	Philo
Descriptor	:	possession
Descriptor	:	prophecy
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	spirits
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/17455251-02702005‬