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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... drawing ' than as ' photograph ' . I will maintain that the viewing lens is more likely to distort any presumed sociocultural backdrop for ideological purposes than to show it clearly and uncomplicatedly . Granted , it is obvious that ...
... drawing ' than as ' photograph ' . I will maintain that the viewing lens is more likely to distort any presumed sociocultural backdrop for ideological purposes than to show it clearly and uncomplicatedly . Granted , it is obvious that ...
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... draw- ing a lone figure into which to distill communal experience — not so easy a thing to do artistically and successfully . I count on a practical purpose behind the composing of DH . That is , it came into being not simply to recite ...
... draw- ing a lone figure into which to distill communal experience — not so easy a thing to do artistically and successfully . I count on a practical purpose behind the composing of DH . That is , it came into being not simply to recite ...
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... draw on the work of Japhet and Eskenazi , who work with the materials of the return and raise questions of various kinds . Japhet's careful work on Haggai , Zechariah , Ezra - Nehe- miah , and Chronicles contributes her sense of the ...
... draw on the work of Japhet and Eskenazi , who work with the materials of the return and raise questions of various kinds . Japhet's careful work on Haggai , Zechariah , Ezra - Nehe- miah , and Chronicles contributes her sense of the ...
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... draw on the same basic set of information ; an exception is Hirschkop ( 1999 : Chapter 3 ) , who ( from newer and untranslated sources ) deconstructs a fair bit of what is standard fare . life and scholarship . He was arrested between ...
... draw on the same basic set of information ; an exception is Hirschkop ( 1999 : Chapter 3 ) , who ( from newer and untranslated sources ) deconstructs a fair bit of what is standard fare . life and scholarship . He was arrested between ...
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... draw literary ' heroes ' whose primary role is to talk ideas , to ruminate points of view , to extend such language dialogically into the character zones of other literary figures , to readers , and even to the authoring pro- cess ...
... draw literary ' heroes ' whose primary role is to talk ideas , to ruminate points of view , to extend such language dialogically into the character zones of other literary figures , to readers , and even to the authoring pro- cess ...
Contents
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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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