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. |
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... dialogism to his more tensively developed notion of the ' third ' who understands our utterances perfectly — run massively and thoroughly counter to Soviet authoritarianism and the dogmas of its favored thinkers . That Bakhtin was able ...
... dialogism to his more tensively developed notion of the ' third ' who understands our utterances perfectly — run massively and thoroughly counter to Soviet authoritarianism and the dogmas of its favored thinkers . That Bakhtin was able ...
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... ( dialogism is the rather ugly English word that catches all the implied intersections among partners ) . Through- out his life , Bakhtin maintained and grew his interest in human beings , in the world we think of as biological - physical ...
... ( dialogism is the rather ugly English word that catches all the implied intersections among partners ) . Through- out his life , Bakhtin maintained and grew his interest in human beings , in the world we think of as biological - physical ...
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... Dialogism Dialogism is identified as Bakhtin's signature concept ( Nielsen 2000 : 51 ) , his master optic ( Clark and Holquist 1984 : 212 ) , the master key which ani- mates and controls all his work ( Holquist 1990 : 15 ) . Though it ...
... Dialogism Dialogism is identified as Bakhtin's signature concept ( Nielsen 2000 : 51 ) , his master optic ( Clark and Holquist 1984 : 212 ) , the master key which ani- mates and controls all his work ( Holquist 1990 : 15 ) . Though it ...
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... Dialogism is the characteristic epistemological mode of a world dominated by heteroglossia . Everything means , is understood , as part of a greater whole there is constant interaction between meanings , all of which have the potential ...
... Dialogism is the characteristic epistemological mode of a world dominated by heteroglossia . Everything means , is understood , as part of a greater whole there is constant interaction between meanings , all of which have the potential ...
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... dialogism is actually a set of ostensibly diverse concepts unified by the insight that encountering the other is crucial for the construction of our consciousness and being , and of course for every other's as well . Language and ...
... dialogism is actually a set of ostensibly diverse concepts unified by the insight that encountering the other is crucial for the construction of our consciousness and being , and of course for every other's as well . Language and ...
Contents
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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 |
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How Are the Mighty Fallen?: A Dialogical Study of King Saul in 1 Samuel Barbara Green Limited preview - 2003 |
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