How Are the Mighty Fallen?: A Dialogical Study of King Saul in 1 SamuelThis book marries the several elements: a given text (1 Samuel), a focal character (King Saul), a spacious and creative theorist (Mikhail Bakhtin), a historical context (the collapse of monarchic Israel and the moment for return. The dilemma for the exile community is to return with royal leadership or without it); a reading challenge is: can a character be a cipher for a corporate experience (Saul represent the whole monarchic experience)? The author argues that the narrative of 1 Samuel may be read as a riddle propounding the complex story of Israel/Judah's experience with kings as an instruction for those pondering leadership choices in the sixth century. The work is an extended reflection on what went wrong with kings and why new leadership must be attempted. The extended riddle of Saul works to show how the life of the king is fundamentally destructive, not because any is malicious but because of many factors of weakness and inadequacy that will be familiar to readers. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 23
Page 16
... . ' ( p . 262 ) . He succinctly characterizes Jehoi- achin as ' a modestly pensioned client in perpetual detention ' ( p . 263 ) . The two figures who emerge from the various biblical texts 16 How Are the Mighty Fallen ?
... . ' ( p . 262 ) . He succinctly characterizes Jehoi- achin as ' a modestly pensioned client in perpetual detention ' ( p . 263 ) . The two figures who emerge from the various biblical texts 16 How Are the Mighty Fallen ?
Page 29
... characterizes as transformative appro- priation of a text . These two elements become related here , insofar as the second reading situation I have chosen to construct explicitly is my own , and it is best addressed under the academic ...
... characterizes as transformative appro- priation of a text . These two elements become related here , insofar as the second reading situation I have chosen to construct explicitly is my own , and it is best addressed under the academic ...
Page 36
... characterizes biblical revelation . Her point is that particular metaphor must be approached as all metaphors are approached . Revelation is symbolic ( not exact or propositional ) and hence must be approached as symbols are approached ...
... characterizes biblical revelation . Her point is that particular metaphor must be approached as all metaphors are approached . Revelation is symbolic ( not exact or propositional ) and hence must be approached as symbols are approached ...
Page 43
... characterizes descriptively as pre - critical ; and it will include trained and committed professionals . He offers several helpful nuances of individuals who might occupy either of these circles and moves on to discuss what the ...
... characterizes descriptively as pre - critical ; and it will include trained and committed professionals . He offers several helpful nuances of individuals who might occupy either of these circles and moves on to discuss what the ...
Page 60
... characterizes and also sets the time of Renaissance Florence distinctively . Any serious artist needs now to know as much as possible about all the genres in which horses can be imagined and rendered , and to draw from one or more of ...
... characterizes and also sets the time of Renaissance Florence distinctively . Any serious artist needs now to know as much as possible about all the genres in which horses can be imagined and rendered , and to draw from one or more of ...
Contents
1 | |
55 | |
CHRONOTOPIC REPRESENTATION OF THE ARK 1 SAMUEL 47 | 116 |
THE AUTHORING OF A KING AND A HERO 1 SAMUEL 812 | 163 |
THE FIRING OF KING SAUL 1 SAMUEL 1315 | 223 |
SAULS DISCOURSES OF DESIRE 1 SAMUEL 1619 | 262 |
PURSUIT AND ESCAPE SURPLUS AND SURVIVAL 1 SAMUEL 2023 | 323 |
LOOPHOLE LANGUAGE AND THE STALKING OF SAUL 1 SAMUEL 2426 | 367 |
THE DEATH OF KING SAUL AND THE ARCHITECTONICS OF HIS CHARACTERIZATION 1 SAMUEL 272 SAMUEL 1 | 411 |
CONCLUSION | 447 |
Bibliography | 468 |
Index of References | 481 |
Index of Authors | 490 |
Other editions - View all
How Are the Mighty Fallen?: A Dialogical Study of King Saul in 1 Samuel Barbara Green Limited preview - 2003 |
How Are the Mighty Fallen?: A Dialogical Study of King Saul in 1 Samuel Barbara Green Limited preview - 2003 |
How Are the Mighty Fallen?: A Dialogical Study of King Saul in 1 Samuel Barbara Green No preview available - 2003 |
Common terms and phrases
Abishai Achish Ahimelech Amalek Amalekite anointed answer asked authoring Bakhtin battle Beth Shemesh biblical text bring Chapter characterizes choice chronotope Clark and Holquist clear communication construction context death deed deity Deuteronomistic History dialogism direct discourse discussion divine drawing dynastic Edelman Elides Elqanah ephod episode exile fact father Fokkelman 1986 genre Gibeah God's Hannah hear hero Hophni and Phinehas human insight Israel Israelites Jabesh Jehoiachin Jobling Jonathan Keilah king king's kingship Kiriath-jearim language least linked loophole māšāl matter McCarter Michal Mikhail Bakhtin Miscall monarchy Morson and Emerson moves Nabal narrative narrator narrator's offered Peninnah perhaps Philistines polyphonic Polzin position possible present priest problem prophet question readers reading relation relationship response role royal Samuel Saul's scene scholars seems sense Shiloh simply sons speak specifically speech spirit story struggle suggests talk thing tion utterance words YHWH YHWH's