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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... particular coherence and composed the recital of the figure of King Saul available in the Hebrew Bible , and ( thanks to the care of many ) we have a written version of it . At some point that version was adapted for use in the longer ...
... particular coherence and composed the recital of the figure of King Saul available in the Hebrew Bible , and ( thanks to the care of many ) we have a written version of it . At some point that version was adapted for use in the longer ...
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... particular , which assumes that ( contrary to certain literary theory of the past century ) the efforts of an author do not completely disappear from a work nor are they wholly irrelevant , granted that they are visible only as ...
... particular , which assumes that ( contrary to certain literary theory of the past century ) the efforts of an author do not completely disappear from a work nor are they wholly irrelevant , granted that they are visible only as ...
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... particular direction and excludes others . My stipulations and minimal critical base on those points are a corre- sponding seven . First , on monarchy in general : the question of whether DH views it as positive or negative is too blunt ...
... particular direction and excludes others . My stipulations and minimal critical base on those points are a corre- sponding seven . First , on monarchy in general : the question of whether DH views it as positive or negative is too blunt ...
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... particular monarchs : most useful here is the dissertation of Gerald Eddie Gerbrandt , who works with the longitudinal question of the DH view of kingship . He also makes the point that the appraisal of king- ship is negative not so ...
... particular monarchs : most useful here is the dissertation of Gerald Eddie Gerbrandt , who works with the longitudinal question of the DH view of kingship . He also makes the point that the appraisal of king- ship is negative not so ...
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... particular way in the Old Testament and in DH . The relationship is set forth for the people as a whole in covenantal language , most prominently in Deuteronomy . Though there is a great deal of nuance , it is not incorrect to say that ...
... particular way in the Old Testament and in DH . The relationship is set forth for the people as a whole in covenantal language , most prominently in Deuteronomy . Though there is a great deal of nuance , it is not incorrect to say that ...
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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How Are the Mighty Fallen?: A Dialogical Study of King Saul in 1 Samuel Barbara Green Limited preview - 2003 |
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