Endnote 2 – Mind the Gap! Telling Stories with White Spaces

For further discussion, see Matthieu Richelle, “Scribal Punchlines: The Masoretic Divisions as Witnesses to Narrative and Rhetorical Sensitivity of Scribes in the Books of Samuel,” in Sébastien Morlet and Béatrice Oiry, eds., 2 Samuel / 2 Règnes: Textes, histoire, réceptions (Leuven: Peeters, 2023), pp. 97–114; and Gary A. Rendsburg, 1 Samuel: The JPS Bible Commentary Series (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, forthcoming), which highlights and explains every single paragraph break in the Masoretic text of the book of Samuel.