In the early twentieth century of our era, Hirschberg and Cheiko published editions - "diwans", to use the Persian - of Samuel's poetry. Both editors thought the poems were preIslamic. Hirschberg thought they were Jewish; Cheikho, Christian (as usual for him). Either would be interesting if true. The second poem is probably the most famous to Orientalists, canon in Aṣmaʿiyat #20 thus ending up - via Wellhausen 1913 - in What The Koran Really Says.
Since 1913 we know better. BSAOS 1931 dismissed that argument with reference to a rebuttal by George Levi della Vida in Revisti degli Studi Orientali 13, 53-72; which is online, sorta.
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