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and ix.-xx., since, apart from their earlier literary growth as
distinct units, they have undergone some revision and alteration
when compilers brought them into their present form.
The story of David and Bathsheba, an incident placed in the
account of the Ammonite campaign, upon which it now depends
phecy in xii. 10-12 with the subsequent family feuds, in particular
(x.-xii.; with x. 15-19 cf. viii. 3-8), connects itself through the pro-
with Absalom's rebellion (cf. xvi. 21 seq.), and again with 1 Kings i.,
where Adonijah's revolt rouses Bathsheba to persuade David to
fulfil some promise of his to recognize her young son Solomon as his
historiography. The whole is closely linked together for an ostensible
heir (i. 13, 17, 21, 29 seq.). The section is an admirable specimen of
purpose, a chronological scheme runs throughout (xiii. 23, 38, xiv.
28 and xv. 7), and the section concludes with an account both of
David's death and of Solomon's accession (see further SOLOMON).
But 2 Sam. xii. 10-12 is an insertion (Wellhausen, Cornill, Kittel, &c.),
even if xii. 1-15a itself be not of secondary origin (Winckler, Schwally,
H. P. Smith, Nowack, Budde, Dhorme); and of the related passages,
xv. 16 is a gloss (Budde), on xx. 3 see below, and the authenticity of
xvi. 21-23 in its present context is not beyond doubt (see also
standpoints, both are presupposed in xvi. 5-14, xix. 16-23, and in
AHITHOPHEL). Although xxi. 1-14 and ix. are of entirely distinct
xvi. 1-4, xix. 24-30 respectively; the gloss xxi. 7 evidently dates
after the insertion of ix., while the opening words of ix. I point back,
not to xxi. which is ignored, but rather to iv., from which it is
view of a few recognized signs of diverse origin (contrast xiv. 27 with
now severed by the miscellaneous group of passages in v.-viii. In
xviii. 18, and see Budde on xv. 24 sqq., xvii. 17), it is possible that
xvi. 1-14, xix. 16-30 are also secondary. In any case the new revolt
of Sheba (xx. 1-22), can hardly be the original sequel to Absalom's.
rebellion (Winckler, H. P. Smith, B. Luther, E. Meyer); there is no
historical prelude to 1 Kings i. (note the opening verse, David's old
age, and cf. 2 Sam. xxiii. 1), and the literary introduction to the story
of Sheba is to be found in the closing scene of xix., apparently at the
point where David returns to the Jordan on his way to Gilgal (v. 40),8
it is to be noticed that the murder of Amasa (xx. 8 sqq.) is parallel to
that of Asahel (ii. 12 sqq.), and the two (now preceding the separate
groups v.-viii. and xxi.-xxiv.) are closely associated in 1 Kings ii. 5.

not necessarily in their present form or order.1 Budde's further | once arise in connexion with the two series v.-viii., xxi.-xxiv., conclusion that 1 Kings i. ii. 1-9, 13 sqq. were likewise wanting (Sam. p. xi.) is also valuable, since (a) 2 Sam. v.-viii. (with xxi.-xxiv.) finds its natural continuation, on the analogy of the Deuteronomic compiler's framework in Kings, in 1 Kings ii. 10-12, iii. 2, and (b) 1 Kings v. 3 seq. (also Deuteronomic) explicitly points back to the summary of the wars in 2 Sam. viii. It is commonly recognized that the compiler of 2 Sam. v.-viii. has Wrongly placed after the capture of Jerusalem (v. 6 sqq.) the conflict with the Philistines (v. 17 sqq.), where the " hold" is not Zion but some place of retreat, perhaps Adullam (cf. xxiii. 14). This being so, the conflicts in xxi. 15 sqq., xxiii. 8 sqq., which are located around Gath, Lehi (so read xxiii. 11), Pasdammim (so v. 9; see 1 Chron. xi. 13), Bethlehem, and the valley of Rephaim, should also precede the occupation of Jerusalem and the subsequent partition of territory among David's sons and others (e.g. xiii. 23, near Bethel). These passages combine to furnish a representation of the events leading to the capture of the capital which is distinct from and now superseded by the detailed narratives in ii. 12-iv. Here, Ishbaal is east of the Jordan, David's men are engaged in fighting Benjamin and Israel-even at Gibeon (about 6 m. N.W. of Jerusalem), the interest of the history is in David's former relations with Israel at Saul's court, and he is regarded as the future deliverer of the oppressed people. These stories are, in fact, of a stamp with the detailed narratives already noticed (83), and they conflict with the fragmentary traditions of David's steps to Jerusalem as seriously as the popular narratives of Saul conflicted with older evidence. But already Josh. ix. 17, xv. 63; Judg. i. 21, 29, 35, xix. 10-12; 2 Sam. v. 6 (cf. xxi. 2), indicate the presence of a line of alien cities including Jerusalem itself, and would point to an important alien district, the existence of which obviously bears upon the trustworthiness of the group of narratives encircling Bethlehem of Judah and Gibeah of Benjamin, the traditional homes of David and Saul. On the other hand, this would ignore the representation of (north) Israelite extension over Judah by Joshua and Saul, and it may be inferred that we have to allow for absolutely different and conflicting standpoints in regard to the history of the district, and that the Judaean traditions of David once had their own independent account of the occupation of Jerusalem and its neighbourhood. The fragments preserved in 2 Sam. v.-viii., xxi.-xxiv. are quite distinct from ii. 12-iv.; they throw another light upon David's relations to Saul's family (xxi. 1-14); and the stories of heroic conflicts with giant-like figures of Gath, &c. (xxiii. 9 seq., 18, cf. 1 Chron. xi. 11, 20) find no place by the side of the more detailed records of David's sojourn under the protection of a king of Gath, one of a confederation of Philistine cities (1 Sam. xxvii., xxix.). It is probable that popular stories of the conquest of the earlier inhabitants have been applied to the Philistines; their general character associates them with the legends of the "sons of Anak" who enter into Judaean (perhaps originally Calebite) tradition elsewhere (Num. xiii. 22; Josh. xi. 21 seq., xv. 14; see Budde, Sam., p. 310 seq.). Several intricate literary problems however at 1 Cornill, Nowack, Stenning and Kennedy (see Literature, below) accept Budde's suggestion that ix.-xx. were inserted by a hand later than the first Deuteronomic editor of viii.; but the further assumption that this editor had deliberately omitted ix.-xx. from his edition cannot be proved, and deals with a literary stage too early for any confident opinion or even for any critical investigation of value.

2* "Jerusalem" in 1 Sam. xvii. 54 is usually treated as an anachronism, because of its occupation by the Jebusites, and Kirjathjearim (vii. 1, 2, perhaps Kiryat el-Enab, 9 m. W. of Jerusalem) is commonly admitted to be in alien hands. But it is clear that Nob (1 Sam. xxi. seq.), about 2 m. N. of the capital, on this view, was scarcely an Israelite city, yet the presence of the priests of Shiloh there is essential to the present structure of the book.

For Joshua, see the older portions of Josh. x., and for Saul, Sam. xiv. 47-51 (his wars), xv. 4 (his Judaean army), xvii. 54 Jerusalem), xxvii. 7-12 (south Judaean clans under Israelite suzerainty) and 2 Sam. i. 12 (Septuagint).

For this cf.. the "Anakim" of Gaza, Gath and Ashdod, &c., in Josh. xi. 21 seq., with the "Philistine" lords, ib. xiii. 3, and see PHILISTINES.

The miscellaneous groups, v.-viii., xxi.-xxiv., are also certainly not in their original form. The introduction in v. 1-3 is twofold (v. 3 and the incomplete v. 1 seq.), and the list in iii. 2-5 (note the resuming link v. 6 after v. 1) is similar in character to that in v. 13-16, and has probably been removed from the context of the latter (cf. 1 Chron. iii. 1-8). The presence of a late hand is also proved by the psalm in xxii. (Ps. xviii.) and by David's "last words," which sever in xxi. 1-14 and xxiv., and the latter (with which note the divergent xxi. 15-22 and xxiii. 8 sqq. These in turn part two related narratives features in 1 Chron. xxi.) shows several signs of later origin or revision. Chap. vii. is to be read in the light of 1 Kings v. 3-5, viii. 14 sqq., all Deuteronomic passages, though not of one stamp. Continuous warfare prevented the building of the temple (1 Kings v 3-5, cf. 2 Sam. viii.), and David's proposal to erect a house to Yahweh seems unnecessary after vi. 17 seq.; but vii. 1, 9, in fact, presuppose ch. viii., and the main object of the narrative is to emphasize Yahweh's promise to build David's house, i.e. his dynasty. vii. is connected with 1 Kings viii. but an important variation (v. 16 contrast 2 Sam. vii. 6-8) illustrates the complexity of the Deuteronomic sources. It is important to notice that, as in the account of the temple in the history of Solomon, the introduction to it in these chapters (2 Sam. vi. seq.) divides miscellaneous though closelyrelated material (see KINGS). On their prelude in 1 Sam. vi. see below, § 6.

Ives of Saul and David.

Thus, the account of David's conflicts with giant heroes and the conquest of Jerusalem and its district seems to belong to a cycle of Judaean tradition (cf. Num. xiii. 22, 28; 5. NarraJosh. xi. 21, xv. 14), which has been almost superseded by other traditions of the rise of the Hebrew monarchy and by the more popular narratives of early relations between the Judaean David and the (north) Israelite king and In xv. 7 we must read four for forty (the vow in this verse refers to Absalom's exile some years previously).

On this and on the character of the detailed narratives in general, see B. Luther in E. Meyer, Israeliten u. ihre Nachbarstamme, pp. 184-199. See, generally, the studies by W. Caspari, Aufkommen u. Krise d. israel. Königtums unter David (1909) and Theol. Stud. u. Krit, (1909), pp. 317 sqq., 619 sqq.; and also H. Gressmann (Literature, below).

Chap. ix. belongs to the joint traditions of David and Saul (cf. ii. 5-iv.); v. 13, which presupposes chap. v., appears to be an addition (see H. P. Smith, Dhorme).

8 xix. 40 (all Judah and half Israel) resumes v. 15 (where Isract is not mentioned). For the view that Absalom's revolt originally concerned Judah alone, see the related section in DAVID. Dhorme, it may be observed, finds in ix.-xx. another source for x. 1-14, xii. 1-15a, xv. 1-6, 10, 24-26, 29, xvi. 5-14, xvii. 27-29, xix. 16-23 and xx. 1-22.

in Samuel, and it is a natural assumption that it should have gone
back beyond the time of Jeroboam 1. While the detailed history
of Israelite kings and prophets in 1 Kings xvii.-2 Kings x. (Ahab
to Jehu) finds more developed parallels in the narratives of Saul and
Samuel, the peculiar treatment of the lives of David and Solomon
(Judaean kings over a united Israel) and of the division of the
contents of 2 Sam. v.-viii., xxi.-xxiv., 1 Kings ii. 10-12, iii. 2, appear
monarchy has complicated the present sources. Although the
to have been consecutive (in some form) at an earlier stage, the con-
nexion has been broken by ix.-xx., 1 Kings i. ii. 1-9, 13 sqq., and the
further vicissitudes can scarcely be recovered; and while there are
clear signs of more than one Deuteronomic hand in the former
group, the latter shows in 1 Kings ii. 2-4 a Deuteronomic revision,
either of independent origin or in the combination of the sources in
their present form. Moreover, Samuel's farewell address (1 Sam.
xii.) belongs to the Deuteronomic and later account of Saul's rise,
and closes the period of (a) the Israelite judges" (see Judg. ii.
Philistine oppression (ib. x. 6 sqq.). The former follows upon
Joshua's two concluding speeches, one given by a Deuteronomic
writer in xxiii., and the other incorporated by another though similar
kinglike "judges," the chiefs are rather local heroes (so Ehud,
hand in xxiv. Although the pre-monarchical age is viewed as one of
Gideon, Jephthah), and the boisterous giant Samson (Judg. xiii.
xvi.), and the religious leaders Eli and Samuel are "judges" from
other standpoints. Perplexity is caused, also, in the oldest account
of Saul's rise (1 Sam. ix.) by the sudden introduction of a Philistine
oppression which cannot be connected with vii. 2-viii., or even
with 1 Sam. iv.-vii. 1. On the other hand, Judg. x. 6 sqq.
refers to a Philistine oppression which has no sequel. It may be
conjectured that there was an original literary connexion between
the two which has been broken by the insertion of traditions relating
to Samuel and Saul. This finds support (a) in the internal evidence
for the later addition of Judg. xvii.-xxi., and of certain portions of
the opening chapters of I Samuel; (b) in the absence of any con-
tinuity in the intervening history; and (c) in the material relation-
ship between portions of the highly composite Judg. x. 6 sqq. and the
rise of Saul. The literary processes thus involved find an analogy in
the original connexion between 2 Sam. v.-viii. and xxi.-xxiv., or
between Exod. xxxiii. seq. and Num. x. 29-36, xi. (see SAUL).
The section 1 Sam. iv.-vii. I forms the prelude to Samuel's great
victory and belongs to the history of Shiloh and the priesthood of Eli.
But the fall of this sanctuary scarcely belongs to this remote age
(11th century); it was sufficiently recent to serve as a warning to
Jerusalem in the time of Jeremiah (close of 7th century). This event
of supreme importance to north Israel (cf. Judg. xviii. 30 seq.) is
already connected with Samuel's prophecy in iii., but the latter is
disaster, not with the history of Samuel, but with the rise of the
strengthened by the Deuteronomic passage, ii. 27-36, which links the
Zadokite Levites of Jerusalem, and thus represents a specifically
Judacan standpoint. This is analogous to the Judaean adaptation of
the prophetical treatment of Saul's life, and it also reflects certain
priestly rivalries (see LEVITES). With the loss of Shiloh is explained
the appearance of the priests at Nob outside Jerusalem (xxi. 1,
xxii. 9), which is followed by their massacre, the flight of Abiathar
(xxii.), and the transference of the sacred ephod to David (xxiii. 6).
Here, however, the emphasis laid upon the ephod brought by
Abiathar, the survivor of the house of Eli (cf. ii. 28, xxi. 9), points
away from what was once a common object of cult to the late and post-

people. The persistent emphasis upon such features as the | Deuteronomic) framework of Israelite history in Kings can be traced rejection of Saul, his enmity towards David, the latter's chivalry, and his friendship for Jonathan, will partly account for the present literary intricacies; and, on general grounds, traditions of quite distinct origin (Calebite or Jerahmeelite; indigenous Judaean; North Israelite or Benjamite) are to be expected in a work now David's history is handled independently in post-exilic form.1 of Saul in 1 Sam. xxv.; and the narrative, now editorially connected with the context (v. 1, see xxviii. 3, and v. 44, see 2 Sam. iii. 15), gives a valuable picture of his life in the south of Palestine.2 With this notice his relations with south Judaean cities in xxx. 26-31. His flight northwards to the Philistine king of Gath (xxvii.) is hardly connected with the preceding situations in xxiv. 17-22, xxv. or xxvi. 21-25, and his previous slaughter of the Philistines at Keilah (xxiii. 1-15) raises historical difficulties.6-iii. 6, an extremely composite passage), and (b) the Ammonite and This is not to mention his earlier successes over the same people, which are very explicitly ignored in xxix. 5, although the famous couplet there quoted now finds its only explanation in xviii. 7 after the death of Goliath and the defeat of the Philistines. The traditions of varying relations between Judah and the Philistines attached to David (cf. xxvii. 5 seq.) are quite distinct from the popular stories of giants of Gath, and now form part of the joint history of David and Saul. The independent narratives of the latter's fate seem to represent one of those disastrous attacks upon the north which are familiar in the later history of the northern kingdom (xxviii. 4, xxix; see Jews: History, § 12). The geographical data are confused by the stories of David (see 1 Sam. xxviii. 4, xxix. 1, and the commentaries), and, while the "Philistines" for once march north to Jezreel to deliver their attack, David's presence is not discovered until Aphek is reached (xxix.). His journey is the opportunity for an Amalekite raid (xxx. cf. xxvii. 8 seq.), and this new defeat of Amalek, ascribed to David, proves a more successful undertaking than that which led to the rejection of Saul (xv. 20 seq. 26-28). Similarly, Saul's disaster leaves Israel again in the hands of the "Philistines" (xxxi. 7, cf. xiii. 6 seq.), and it is for David to save the people of Israel out of their hands (2 Sam. iii. 18, cf. 1 Sam. ix. 16). The sequel to the joint history has another version of Saul's death (2 Sam. i. 6-10, 13-16), and an Amalekite is the offender; contrast his death in i. 15 seq. with iv. 10 seq. The chapter explains the transference of the. royal insignia from Israel to Judah. Here is quoted (from the "Book of Jashar ") | the old poetical lament over the death of the valiant friends Saul and Jonathan, describing their successful warlike career, the wealth they brought the people, and the vivid sense of national misfortune (i. 19-27). It is utilized for the history of David, to whom its authorship is attributed. In general, it appears that those narratives wherein the histories of Saul and David are combined-very much in the favour of the latter-exilic restriction of its use to the Aaronite high priests (see EPHOD). were originally distinct from those where (a) Saul's figure is more in accord with the old poem from the Book of Jashar, and (b) where David's victories over prehistoric giants and his warlike movements to Jerusalem pave the way for the foundation-from a particular Judaean standpoint-of his remarkably long dynasty.

Moreover, according to 1 Kings ii. 26, Abiathar bore the ark, and while some traditions traced its history to Shiloh, or even found it at Bethel (Judg. xx. 27 seq.), others apparently ran quite another course, associated it with southern clans ultimately settled in Judah, and supposed that Jerusalem was its first resting-place. The author of 2 Sam. vii. 6 (cf. also 1 Chron. xxiii. 25 sq.) can scarcely have known 1 Sam. i.-iii, with its temple at Shiloh, and although 2 Sam. vi. finds its present prelude in Sam. vi. 17-vii. 1, that passage actually brings the story of its fortunes to a close by relating the return of the ark from Philistine territory to the care of Abinadab and Eleazar at Kirjath-jcarim (note the "Levitical" type of the names; Budde, Sam. p. 47). From Josh. ix. 17 (post-exilic source) it might indeed Kennedy, Sam. p. 325 seq.), although to judge from the older be argued that the district was not under Israelite jurisdiction (see

The literary problems of the books of Samuel are those of the writing of the history of the monarchies from different points of view; and the intimate connexion of the books with 6. Literthose that precede and follow shows that a careful conary and sideration of the internal literary and historical features historical of these also is necessary. The first step is the recognition problems. of a specific Deuteronomic redaction in Joshua-Kings, an intricate process which extended into the post-exilic age." Certain phenomena suggest that the first compilation was made outside Judah-in Israel, whereas others represent a Judaean and anti-Israelite feeling. The close interconnexion of Judg. x.1 Sam. xii. is as crucial as that of 2 Sam. v.-1 Kings ii. The (probably. The late genealogy of Saul in 1 Chron. viii. 29 sqc, ix. 35 sqq., is evidence for a keen interest in the Saulidae in post-exilic times. The chapter with the prophecy of Abigail may be of Calebite origin.

So also, David's wars (2 Sam. viii.) bear a certain resemblance to those of Saul (1 Sam. xiv. 47). See G. F. Moore, Ecy. Bib. "Historical Literature," § 6 seq. 'Joshua," §§ 5, 11; Judges," § 14.

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Nowack, p. 39; Riedel, Theolog. Lit. Blatt (1904), No. 3, col. 28. 'S. A. Cook, Critical Notes, p. 127 seq. (cf. Dhorme, Rev. Bibl., 1908, p. 436; Godbey, Amer. Journ. Theol., 1909, p. 610).

Although writers sought to explain Saul's disastrous end (cf. 1 Chron. x. 13), it is only Josephus (Ant. vi. 14, 9) who refers to the atrocity at Nob. The significance of the tradition is unknown; some connexion with Saul's religious zeal at Gibeon has been conjectured (2 Sam. xxi. 2). That the actual murderer was an Edomite may perhaps be associated with other traditions of Edomite hostility.

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traditions of Saul it was doubtless part of his kingdom. It may be
that the narrative (which presupposes some account of the fall of
Shiloh) is part of an attempt to co-ordinate different traditions of
the great palladium.'
Consequently, the literary structure of the Book of Samuel is
throughout involved with a careful criticism of the historical tradi-
tions ascribed to the 11th and beginning of the 10th century
7. Sum- B.C. The perspective of the past has often been lost, carlier
views have been subordinated to later ones, conflicting
standpoints have been incorporated. The intricacy of the Deutero-
nomic redactions still awaits solution, and the late insertion of carlier
narratives (which have had their own vicissitudes) complicates the
literary evidence. Greater care than usual was taken to weave into
the canonical representation of history sources of diverse origin, and
it is scarcely possible at present to do more than indicate some of
the more important features in the composition of a book, one of the
most important of all for the critical study of biblical history and
theology.

The Hebrew text is often corrupt but can frequently be corrected with the help of the Septuagint. The parallel portions in Chronicles also sometimes preserve better readings, but must be used with caution as they may represent other recensions or the result of rewriting and reshaping. As a whole, Chronicles presents the period from a later ecclesiastical standpoint, presupposing (in contrast to Samuel) the fully developed "Mosaic" ritual (see CHRONICLES). After tribal and priestly lists (1 Chron. i.-ix.), Saul's end is suddenly introduced (x., note v. 13 seq.). David appears no less abruptly, the sequence being 2 Sam. v. 1-3, 6-10, xxiii. 8-39 (with additions, xi. 41-47, and a list of his supporters at Ziklag and Hebron). To 2 Sam. vi. 2-11 there is a "Levitical" prelude (xiii. 1-5), then follow v. 11-25, and vi. 12-19, which is embedded in novel material. Next, 2 Sam. vii. seq., x., xi. 1, xii. 30 seq., xxi. 18-22, and finally xxiv. (Chron. xxi.). The last is the prelude to an account of the preparation for the temple and the future sovereignty of Solomon, and ends with David's army and government (Chron. xxvii), and his concluding acts (xxviii. seq.). The compiler was not ignorant of other sources (see x. 13, xii. 19. 21, 23), and, in general, carries out, though from a later standpoint, tendencies already manifest in Samuel. The latter in fact is no less the result of editorial processes and since it is now in post-exilic form, this is the starting-point for fresh criticism. The representation of the remote past in Samuel must be viewed, therefore, in the light of that age when, after a series of vital internal and external vicissitudes in Judah and Benjamin, Judaism established itself in opposition to rival sects and renounced the Samaritans who had inherited the traditions of their land. See further JEWS, $56-8, 20-23, PALESTINE: Old Test. History, pp. 614-616.

formerly containing the palace and gardens of the imams, covering its W. face; (2) the Bir Azab W. of the city, consisting of detached houses and gardens, chiefly occupied by the higher Turkish officials, and (3) on the extreme W. the Ka'el Yahud or Jewish quarter. The city with the Kasr and Mutawakkil is surrounded by ramparts built of clay and sun-dried brick, 25 to 30 ft. high and of great thickness. The Bir Azab and Ka'el Yahud are enclosed in a similar enceinte but of more recent construction, connected with that of the city by the Mutawakkil; the whole forms a rough figure of eight, some 24 m. long from E. to W., and m. in breadth. The walls are pierced by several gates; the principal are the Bab esh Shu'b and the Bab el Yemen in the N. and S. faces of the city respectively, and the Bab es Sabah in its W. face leading into the Mutawakkil, and thence by a broad street through the Bir Azab and Ka'el Yahud to the Bab el Ka', the main entrance to the town from the Hodeda road. The city itself has narrow, paved streets, with massive, flat-roofed houses of several storeys, and many extensive groups of buildings, mosques, serais and baths. The Jami 'Masjid, or principal mosque, stands on the site of the Christian church built by Abraha ruler of Yemen during the period of Ethiopian domination, about A.D. 530. It consists of a great rectangular courtyard paved with granite, surrounded by a triple arcade, the domed roofs of which are supported by numerous columns of stone or brick; in the centre there is a model of the Ka'ba at Mecca covered with stone flags of various colours arranged chequer-wise. Among the other mosques, of which there are forty-eight in all, that of Salah ed din with its beautiful minaret is one of the finest. Of the Kasr Ghumdan and other ancient buildings, the splendours of which were sung by the poets of the early days of Islam, nothing but mutilated ruins remain; the old palace of the imams, the Mutawakkil, was destroyed during the years of anarchy preceding the Turkish occupation, and the site is now occupied by a military hospital standing in well-kept gardens. The houses consist generally of a ground floor built of dressed stone, surmounted by two or three storeys of burnt brick; as a rule the lower storey has no openings but an arched doorway; the façade of the upper storeys is pierced by long narrow window recesses, divided into three parts, the lowest of which forms a square window closed by carved wooden shutters, while the upper ones contain round or pointed windows fitted with coloured glass, or thin slabs of alabaster which admit a subdued light.

The valley in which Sana lies is generally sterile, but in places where water is brought from the hill streams on the W. fields of barley, lucerne and market gardens are to be seen, particularly at Randa, the garden suburb, 6 m. N. of the town, and in the deep gorges of the Wadi Dhahr and W. Hadda, the terraced orchards of which are celebrated for their fine fruit-trees. The water supply of the town is derived from numerous wells, and from the Ghail Aswad, a small canal which supplies the military

LITERATURE.-See further the commentaries of M. Löhr (1898); | W. Nowack, K. Budde (1902); H. P. Smith in the International Critical Commentary (1899), with his Old Testament History, pp. 107155, and the small but well-annotated edition of A. R. S. Kennedy in the Century Bible (1905). All these give fuller bibliographical information, for which see also S. R. Driver, Introduction to Literature of Old Testament, and the articles by J. Stenning in Hastings's Dictionary and B. Stade in Ency. Bib. For the text, see especially J. Wellhausen's model Text-Bücher Sam. (1871); S. R. Driver, Text of Samuel (1890); K. Budde's edition in Haupt's Sacred Books of the Old Testament (1894); P. Dhorme, Livres de Samuel (1910). Of special value for the psychological character of the various narratives is H. Gressmann's Schriften d. A. T. in Auswahl, i-iii. (Gottingen, 1909-1910). In so far as the present article takes other views of the results of literary analysis in the light of historical criticism, see S. A. Cook, American Journ. of Sem. Lang. (1900), pp. 145 sqq.; and Critical Notes on Old Testament History (1907) (passim). (S. A. C.) SANA (Sena'a), a town in S. Arabia, the capital of the Turkish vilayet of Yemen. It is situated in 15° 22' N. and 44° 10' E. in a broad valley_running nearly N. and S., 7250 ft. above The population was estimated by R. Manzoni in 1887 at sea-level, on the E. slope of the great meridional range, over 20,000 Arabs, 3000 Turks and 1700 Jews, or less than 25,000 which the road runs to Hodeda, on the Red Sea coast 130 m. altogether; H. Burchardt in 1891 put it at 50,000; the city distant, crossing the Karn al Wa'l pass, over 9000 ft., about has, however, suffered severely from the state of unrest 25 m. W. of the city. The mean temperature of the year is which has been chronic in Yemen since 1893, and more particu60° F., with a summer maximum of 77°, and a regular rainfall larly in 1905, when it was taken by the insurgents, and held which falls chiefly during the S.W. monsoon from June to Sep-by them for three months, and the actual numbers at present tember. The usual cereals, fruits and vegetables of the temperate zone, wheat, barley, apples, apricots, vines, potatoes, cabbages, beans, &c., are abundant and excellent.

The town consists of three parts-(1) the Medina, the old city, now the Arab quarter, on the E. containing the principal mosques, baths, &c., with the citadel, el Kasr, at its S.E. corner at the foot of Jebel Nukum on the crest of which 2000 ft. above the valley are the ruins of the old fort of el Birash, traditionally attributed to Shem the son of Noah, and the Mutawakkil,

1 This is on the usual assumption that there was only one ark in the history of Judah and Israel.

cantonment outside and S. of the walls, and runs through the

gardens in the Mutawakkil.

do not probably exceed Manzoni's estimate.

Arabic writers give many discordant and fabulous traditions about the oldest history of Sana and its connexion with the ancient kingdom of Himyar. But most agree that its oldest name was Azal, which seems to be the same word with Uzal in Gen. x. 27. A Himyarite nation of Auzalites occurs in a Syriac writer of the 6th century. The better-informed Arab writers knew also that the later name is due to the Abyssinian conquerors of Yemen, and that it meant in their language "fortified" (Bakri, p. 606; Nöldeke, Gesch. d. Pers. u. Arab. p. 187). Sana became the capital of the Abyssinian Abraha (c. 530 A.D.) who built here the famous church (Kalis), which was destroyed two centuries later by order of the caliph Manşur (Azraki, p. 91).

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AUTHORITIES.-Niebuhr, Travels in Arabia (Amsterdam, 1774): | R. Manzoni, Il Yemen (Rome, 1884); D. Charnay and A. Deflers, Excursions au Yemen. Tour du monde (Paris, No. 24, 1898). (R. A. W.) SANA'I, the common name of ABULMAJD MAJDUD B. ĀDAM, the earliest among the great Şufic poets of Persia, was a native of Ghazni (in Afghanistan). He flourished in the reigns of the Ghaznevid sultans Ibrahim (1059-1099, 451-492 A.H.), his son Mas'ud (1099-1114), and his grandson Bahram (1118-1152). Persian authorities are greatly at variance as to the dates of the poet's birth and death. At any rate, he must have been born in the beginning of the second half of the 11th century and have died between 1131 and 1150 (525 and 545 A.H.). He composed chiefly qaşidas in honour of his sovereign Ibrahim and the great men of the realm, but the ridicule of a half-mad jester is said to have caused him to abandon the career of a court panegyrist and to devote his poetical abilities to higher subjects. For forty years he led a life of retirement and poverty, and, although Bahram offered him a high position at court and his own sister in marriage, he remained faithful to his austere and solitary But, partly to show his gratitude to the king, partly to leave a lasting monument of his genius behind him, he began to write his great double-rhymed poem on ethics and religious life, which served as model to the masterpieces of Farid-uddin 'Attar and Jeläl ud-din Rumi, the Hadiqat ul-haqiqat, or " Garden of Truth (also called Alkitab alfakhri), in ten cantos. This poem deals with such topics as the unity of the Godhead, the divine word, the excellence of the prophet, reason, knowledge and faith, love, the soul, worldly occupation and inattention to higher duties, stars and spheres and their symbolic lore, friends and foes, separation from the world. One of Sana'i's carliest disciples, Mahommed b. 'Ali Raqqām, generally known as 'Ali al-Raffa, who wrote a preface to this work, assigns to its composition the date 1131 (525 A.H.), and states besides that the poet died immediately after the completion of his task. Now, Sana'i cannot possibly have died in 1131, as another of his mathnawis, the Tariq-i-tahqiq, or "Path to the Verification of Truth," was composed, according to a chronogram in its last verses, in 1134 (528 A.H.), nor even in 1140, if he really wrote, as the Atashkada says, an elegy on the death of Amir Mu'izzi; for this court-poet of Sultan Sinjar lived till 1147 or 1148 (542 A.H.). It seems, therefore, that Taqi Kāshi is right in fixing Sana'i's death in 1150 (545 A.H.), the more so as 'Ali al-Raffă himself distinctly says in his preface that the poet breathed his last on the 11th of Sha'ban, "which was a Sunday," and it is only in 1150 that this day happened to be the first of the week. Sana'i left, besides the Hadiqah and the Tariq-i-tahqiq, several other Şüfic mathnawis of similar purport: for instance, the Sair ul'ibād ila'lma'äd, or “Man's Journey towards the Other World" (also called Kunüz-urrumüz, "The Treasures of Mysteries"); the 'Ishqnāma, or "Book of Love"; the 'Aqlnama or "Book of Intellect "; the Kärnäma, or "Record of Stirring Deeds," &c.; and an extensive diwan or collection of lyrical poetry. "" Mecca His tomb, called the " of Ghazni, is still visited by numerous pilgrims. See Abdullatif al-'Abbasi's commentary (completed 1632 and preserved in a somewhat abridged form in several copies of the India Office Library); on the poet's life and works, Ouseley, Biogr. Notices, 184-187; Rieu's and Flugel's Catalogues, &c.; E. G. Browne, Literary History of Persia (1906), ii. 317-322; H. Ethé in W. Geiger's Grundriss der iranischen Philologie, ii. 282-284.

SAN ANTONIO, a city and the county-seat of Bexar county, Texas, U.S.A., about 80 m. S.S.W. of Austin, on the San Antonio river, at the mouth of the San Pedro. Pop. (1900) 53,321, of whom 18,880 were of foreign parentage, 9348 were foreign-born (including 3288 Mexicans and 3031 Germans) and 7538 were negroes; (1910 census), 96,614. San Antonio is the largest city of Texas. It is served by the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio, the International & Great Northern, the San Antonio & Aransas Pass, and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railways. The The city lies at an elevation of 610-750 ft. above the sea. San Antonio river (which has a winding course of 13 m. within the city limits) and its affluent, the San Pedro (which is 10 m.

long in its course through San Antonio), divide the city into
three main portions, and these water-courses and the Acequia
(7 m. long) are spanned by 17 large iron bridges and about
2500 smaller bridges and culverts. Among the public buildings
are the city hall in Military Plaza, the court-house on Main Plaza,
the Federal building on the N. side of Alamo Plaza, the Carnegie
library and the convention hall and market house on Milam
Square. The most interesting building is the historic Alamo
(named from the grove of cottonwood-alamo, the Populus
monilifera-in which it stands) on the E. side of the Alamo
Plaza, E. of the San Antonio river; it was begun probably in
1744 and was the chapel of the Mission San Antonio de Valero
(often called "the Alamo mission "); in 1883 it was bought by
the state and has since been maintained as a public monument.
The San Fernando Cathedral' on Main Plaza was built in 1734,
but there is very little of the original structure in the present
building, which really dates from 1868-1873; the former
governor's palace, built in 1749, is at No. 105 Military Plaza;
at 128 Soledad is the Veramendi Palace, the residence of Governor
Veramendi, father-in-law of Colonel James Bowie, and in this
palace Colonel B. R. Milam was killed on the 5th of December
1835 by a sharpshooter hidden in a cypress tree; there is a
monument to Colonel Milam in Milam Square. One mile N.
of the city on Government Hill is Fort Sam Houston (established
in 1865), headquarters of the Department of Texas, with an
army hospital (1885) and a tower 88 ft. high. There are several
old missions near the city, notably the Mission La Purisima
Concepción de Acuna (the "First Mission "), 2 m. S. of the city,
built here in 1731-1752, having formerly been in E. Texas;
the Mission San José de Aguayo (the "Second Mission "),
4 m. S. of San Antonio, built in 1720-1731; the Mission San
Juan de Capistrano (the " Third Mission "), 6 m. S. of the Main
Plaza built in 1731; and San Francisco de la Espada (the
"Fourth Mission," also built in 1731 and also removed
here from E. Texas), which is 8 m. S. of the Main Plaza and
is now used for service by the local Mexicans. The city has 21
parks and plazas. Within the city limits in its N. central part
is Brackenridge Park (200 acres) along the San Antonio;
1 m. N.E. of the city is San Pedro Park (40 acres), the source
of the San Pedro river; in Travis Park is a Confederate
monument; and 3 m. S. of the city are the International Fair
Grounds, where in 1898 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt organized
his "Rough Riders," and Riverside Park. The most notable
of the plazas are Military, Main and Alamo. The anniversary
of the Battle of San Jacinto, the 21st of April, is annually cele-
brated by a "Battle of Flowers." Annually in October an
International Fair is held, to which Mexico sends an exhibit
of Mexican products and manufactures. The climate is mild
with a mean summer temperature of 82° F. and a winter average
of 54°, and this and the dry purity of the air make it a health
resort; it is also the winter home of many Northerners. There
is good shooting (doves, quail, wild turkey and deer) in the
vicinity; there are fine golf links and there is a large ranch for
breeding and training polo ponies. In the southern suburbs two
artesian wells, 1800-2000 ft. deep, discharge 800,000 gallons
a day of strong sulphur water (temperature 103-106° F.),
which is used for treating rheumatism and skin diseases.
Near one of these wells is the South-western (State) Hospital
for the Insane (1892). The city has a good public school system,
including, besides the usual departments, departments of manual
training and domestic science. In 1910 there were 30 schools
-26 for whites and 4 for negroes. Among the educational
institutions in San Antonio are the San Antonio Female College
(Methodist Episcopal, South; 1894), the West Texas Military
Academy; Peacock Military School; St Mary's Hall (Roman
Catholic); St Louis College; and the Academy of Our Lady of
the Lake (under the Sisters of Divine Providence, who have a
convent here). The city is the see of Protestant Episcopal and

1 The cathedral is the centre of the city according to the charter, which describes the city as including "six miles square, of which the sides shall be equi-distant from what is known as the cupola of the cathedral of San Fernando and three miles therefrom."

Roman Catholic bishops. Among the charitable institutions |
are the City Hospital (1886), the Santa Rosa Infirmary (1869),
maintained by Sisters of Charity, a House of Refuge (1897),
a Rescue Home (1895), a home for destitute children and aged
persons (1897), the St Francis Home for the Aged (1893), St
John's Orphan Asylum (1878), St Joseph's Orphan Asylum
(1871) and the Protestant Home for Destitute Children (1887).
The principal manufactures are malt liquors, flour and grist-
mill products and steam railway cars. San Antonio is the
commercial centre of a great live stock and farming region.
Under the charter of 1903, as amended in 1907, the municipal
government consists of a city council, composed of the mayor,
four aldermen, elected at large, and eight ward aldermen, all
elected for a term of two years, as are the other elective officers;
a city attorney, an assessor, a collector, a treasurer, an auditor
and judge of the Corporation Court. Any elective officer may
be removed by the vote of eight members of the council. Other
officers are appointed by the mayor with the confirmation of
the council. The city water supply, owned by a private corpora-
tion, is obtained from artesian wells with a capacity of 40,000,000
gallons a day. The city has a sewer-farm of 530 acres which the
charter forbids it to sell.

branch of the United Railways of Havana. It is on the banks of the Ariguanabo river, which drains a lake of the same name, and is itself one of the many" disappearing rivers " of the island; it disappears in a cave near San Antonio. The town has mineral springs and baths, and is a summer resort of the people of Havana. Though spreading over hills, the plan of the town is regular. The tobacco of the Vuelta Abajo lands immediately around the city is famous. The pueblo arose in the middle of the 18th century as a camp for convicts from Mexico. It became a villa in 1794. Early in the 19th century refugees from Santo Domingo settled here and founded coffee estates that gave the place great prosperity until the expulsion of the French in 1809; subsequently the cultivation of tobacco renewed its prosperity.

SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium), an establishment where persons suffering from disease, or convalescents, may be received for medical treatment, rest cures and the like; in recent modern usage particularly used for establishments where patients suffering from phthisis may undergo the open-air treatment (see THERAPEUTICS). The mis-spellings of the word, sanilarium and sanatarium, are due to a confusion of "sanatory," i.e. giving health, from sanare, and "sanitary," pertaining to health, from sanitas, health.

San Antonio was the capital of Texas during the periods of Spanish and Mexican rule. The presidio of San Antonio de Bexar and the mission of San Antonio de Valero were founded SANATRUCES (Sinatruces, Pers. Sanatruk), Parthian king. in 1718 under the direction of Martin de Alarcón, governor of In the troublous times after the death of Mithradates II. (c. 88 Coahuila. San Antonio was accordingly from the beginning a B.C.) he was made king by the Sacaraucae, a Mongolian tribe combination of two of the three types of Spanish settlement, who had invaded Iran in 76 B.C. He was eighty years old and the military and the ecclesiastical (see TEXAS: History). To reigned seven years; his successor was his son Phraates III. these was added the third, the civil type, in 1731, when the (Lucian, Macrob. 15; Phlegon, fr. 12 ap. Phot. cod. 97; Appian, villa of San Fernando was established. Several missions were Mithr. 104; Dio Cass. xxxvi. 45). Another Sanatruces (Sanaestablished in the neighbourhood, including those already trucius) is mentioned as an ephemeral Parthian king in A.D. 115 mentioned and San Xavier de Náxera (1722), a new foundation. (Malalas, Chron. p. 270, 273). (ED. M.) All of these missions decreased in importance with the disappearance of the Indians and by the close of the period of Spanish rule (1821) had been abandoned. San Antonio was captured by the Magee-Gutierrez party in 1813, but was recovered by the Mexican royalists (see TEXAS: History). It was besieged by the Texan army under General Stephen F. Austin and Edward Burleson in 1835 and was finally taken early in December as the result of an attack led by Colonel Benjamin R. Milam. Its recapture by Santa Anna, February-March 1836, was distinguished by the heroic defence of the mission (particularly the chapel of the Alamo) by Colonels William Barrett Travis, James Bowie and Davy Crockett, and 178 others against the attack of about 4000 Mexicans. After a bombardment lasting from the 23rd of February to the 6th of March, the Mexicans assaulted on the 6th, were twice beaten back, and then overpowered and slaughtered the garrison, the five survivors being subsequently bayonetted in cold blood. Three women, one a Mexican, two children and a negro servant were spared. "Remember the Alamo" became a war-cry of the Texans. The Mexicans again invaded Texas in 1842, and San Antonio was twice captured and held for short periods, first by General Vasquez and later by General Woll After 1836 there was a large influx of Anglo-Americans and Germans, and the Mexican element long ago ceased to predominate. Charters of incorporation were granted in 1837, 1842, 1852, 1856, 1870 and 1903 At San Antonio in February 1861 General David E. Twiggs (17901862), a veteran of the Mexican War, surrendered the Department of Texas, without resistance, to the Confederate general, Ben McCulloch; for this General Twiggs was dismissed from the United States army, and in May he became a major-general in the Confederate service. The rapid growth of San Antonioceived a new one in 1864. The Southern Pacific in 1876 gave dates from 1878, when the first railway entered the city.

See William Corner, San Antonio de Bexar (San Antonio, 1890); The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, ii. 217-226, vii 277-352: and George P Garrison, Texas (Boston and New York, 1903), in the "American Commonwealths Series."

SAN ANTONIO DE LOS BAÑOS, a small town in Havana Province, Cuba, about 23 m. (by rail) SW of Havana. Pop. (1907) 9125. San Antonio de los Baños is served by the W

SAN BERNARDINO, a city and the county-seat of San Bernardino county, California, U.S.A., about 60 m. E. of Los Angeles. Pop. (1900) 6150 (873 foreign-born); (1910) 12,779. It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé, the Southern Pacific and the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railways, and by an interurban electric line. The city is situated in a valley at an altitude of about 1050 ft., at the S. base of the San Bernardino mountain range and 20 m. W. of San Bernardino mountain (11,600 ft.). Among the public buildings are a Carnegie library (1903; the library was established in 1891), with 10,000 volumes in 1909, and the county court house. There are two public parks, Lugo, near the centre of the city, and Meadowbrook, on the E. outskirts. San Bernardino is one of several places (Redlands, Highland, Rialto, Colton, Bloomington, Riverside, Pomona) that lie near together in part of the citrus fruit, alfalfa and grain region of S. California. The Santa Fé railway has extensive repair and construction shops here. San Bernardino is popularly known as the "Gate City of Southern California." Five miles N of the city, and connected with it by electric railway, at the base of a mountain on whose side is a great blaze shaped like an arrow-head, are the Arrowhead Hot Springs (196° F.), resembling the Carlsbad waters; the hotel at the Springs is heated by their waters. Other hot springs near San Bernardino are the Urbita, 1 m. S., and the Harlem, 4 m. N.E. About 1822 Spanish missionaries settled about 5 m. from the site of the present city and called their mission San Bernardino (from St Bernardin of Siena). In 1851 the Mormons established here a colony, which was abandoned in 1857. The county was organized in 1853 with the county-seat at San Bernardino, which was incorporated as a town in 1854. It was deprived of its charter in 1861, but re

the city connexion with the ocean, and the Santa Fé in 1885 connected it with the East. Under a state enactment in 1905 San Bernardino adopted a new charter which provides for the "recall "by petition, the initiative and the referendum.

SANCERRE, a town of central France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Cher, 34 m. N E. of Bourges by rail. Pop. (1906) 2232. Sancerre, which gives its name to the small district of Sancerrois, is situated on an isolated vine-clad hill

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