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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... reading but work within a single textual tradition ( recognizing that as an oversimplification ) , I will rarely ... readers agree or disagree , these will be support beams in my work and will ( with few exceptions ) get little ...
... reading but work within a single textual tradition ( recognizing that as an oversimplification ) , I will rarely ... readers agree or disagree , these will be support beams in my work and will ( with few exceptions ) get little ...
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... readers ? For example , suppose it were not the intent of the DH to present ' history ' as any of us might conceive or define that word ; how would that situation constrain our reading ? The topics are obviously huge , somewhat ...
... readers ? For example , suppose it were not the intent of the DH to present ' history ' as any of us might conceive or define that word ; how would that situation constrain our reading ? The topics are obviously huge , somewhat ...
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... reading the narrative as an artistic representation . A similar set of huge questions swirls around the matter of how reality and the experience of it take shape within language . Not unrelated to the previous set of historiographical ...
... reading the narrative as an artistic representation . A similar set of huge questions swirls around the matter of how reality and the experience of it take shape within language . Not unrelated to the previous set of historiographical ...
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... reading , rising as it does from within both the academy and the church , influenced by the reading strategies of theorist Mikhail Bakhtin , and advo- cating the possibility of transformative reading for those somewhat like myself ...
... reading , rising as it does from within both the academy and the church , influenced by the reading strategies of theorist Mikhail Bakhtin , and advo- cating the possibility of transformative reading for those somewhat like myself ...
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... reading in subtle ways . Another highly contested matter in DH scholarship is the dating of the materials , a ... readings is cautionary . The conversation seems to be shifting from what an author intended ( such was the discussion for ...
... reading in subtle ways . Another highly contested matter in DH scholarship is the dating of the materials , a ... readings is cautionary . The conversation seems to be shifting from what an author intended ( such was the discussion for ...
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 |
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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