Abstract
This chapter presents examples from the story of Hannah in 1 Samuel, and discusses the textual character of the MT in this part of the Hebrew Bible through these examples. The point of comparison is mainly the Septuagint, but in several cases there are also fragments of 4QSam a available. As is well known, there are numerous smaller and larger differences between the MT, on the one hand, and the Septuagint and 4QSama, on the other, in the Books of Samuel. Theoretically speaking, it may be a question of unintentional corruption of the text in one or the other direction or it is also possible that some of these differences have their origin in deliberate editing of one or the other textual tradition. The chapter demonstrates that both textual corruption and deliberate editing, involving theological or ideological tendency, have taken place in the Masoretic textual tradition. Keywords:Books of Samuel; deliberate editing; MT; textual corruption
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