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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... things were , looked , functioned ? Or is the scene more repre- sentational , aiming to highlight narrative process rather than its reference , and hence unreliable for reconstructing an accurate past ? My assumption will consistently ...
... things were , looked , functioned ? Or is the scene more repre- sentational , aiming to highlight narrative process rather than its reference , and hence unreliable for reconstructing an accurate past ? My assumption will consistently ...
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... that account for the data . See also Linville 1997 : 38-41 , for his sense of how little we know about many of the things we theorize about with such confidence . obvious , even if it is not always clear what Introduction 7.
... that account for the data . See also Linville 1997 : 38-41 , for his sense of how little we know about many of the things we theorize about with such confidence . obvious , even if it is not always clear what Introduction 7.
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... 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 the past but to shape its historical and urgent present . Though it is conceivable ...
... 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 the past but to shape its historical and urgent present . Though it is conceivable ...
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... things , that a block of material added in or taken out does not change it wholly . 17. Among recent efforts to bring together and sort various views on these DH- linked topics recently , see Campbell and O'Brien , who ( in addition to ...
... things , that a block of material added in or taken out does not change it wholly . 17. Among recent efforts to bring together and sort various views on these DH- linked topics recently , see Campbell and O'Brien , who ( in addition to ...
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... thing needful ' , a phrase lifted from Lk . 10.42 ; I will reassign the phrase to signal in my writing the notion that , all difficul- ties of specifying its exact relations notwithstanding , the ' one thing need- ful ' refers to the ...
... thing needful ' , a phrase lifted from Lk . 10.42 ; I will reassign the phrase to signal in my writing the notion that , all difficul- ties of specifying its exact relations notwithstanding , the ' one thing need- ful ' refers to the ...
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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