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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... live amid these worlds is what continued to intrigue him and to comprise his work : how each of us becomes a unique ... lives distinctive in our time and place ( an ever - shifting concept he labeled chronotope ) : We are non ...
... live amid these worlds is what continued to intrigue him and to comprise his work : how each of us becomes a unique ... lives distinctive in our time and place ( an ever - shifting concept he labeled chronotope ) : We are non ...
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... live almost independently rather than to be moved around passively by authors , other characters even by readers , insofar as we commit and train ourselves to read that way as well . Bakhtin's work on language and culture helped him to ...
... live almost independently rather than to be moved around passively by authors , other characters even by readers , insofar as we commit and train ourselves to read that way as well . Bakhtin's work on language and culture helped him to ...
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... live , cued by what we find offered to us . d . Bakhtin's Base Concept : Dialogism Dialogism is identified as Bakhtin's signature concept ( Nielsen 2000 : 51 ) , his master optic ( Clark and Holquist 1984 : 212 ) , the master key which ...
... live , cued by what we find offered to us . d . Bakhtin's Base Concept : Dialogism Dialogism is identified as Bakhtin's signature concept ( Nielsen 2000 : 51 ) , his master optic ( Clark and Holquist 1984 : 212 ) , the master key which ...
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... lives . Schneiders assumes here the participation of a committed believer , which is part of my reading self that I wish to situate . The formal object of spirituality ( the specific aspect under which its matter is studied ) is human ...
... lives . Schneiders assumes here the participation of a committed believer , which is part of my reading self that I wish to situate . The formal object of spirituality ( the specific aspect under which its matter is studied ) is human ...
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... lives of Christians and celebrated ways in which it seems to be healing in our time , Schneiders implies that critical analyses of the Bible have not looked deeply enough ( 1985 : 19 ) . She and others celebrate ' " the re - enchantment ...
... lives of Christians and celebrated ways in which it seems to be healing in our time , Schneiders implies that critical analyses of the Bible have not looked deeply enough ( 1985 : 19 ) . She and others celebrate ' " the re - enchantment ...
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 |
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 |
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