Gilmour's Divine Violence is a thorough investigation of the dynamics of transgression, punishment, and their upheavals in the Book of Samuel...I highly recommend it, especially for those who seek a nuanced theological understanding of divine violence in biblical texts.
Rachelle Gilmour is a Bromby Senior Lecturer in Old Testament at Trinity College, University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia. She is also the author of Juxtaposition and the Elisha Cycle and Representing the Past: A Literary Analysis of Narrative Historiography in the Book of Samuel.