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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... tion of the basic covenantal relationship between deity and people so richly described in Deuteronomy ( Gerbrandt 1986 : 145-54 ) . Gerbrandt's way of putting it is that Israel mistakes the human king as the savior , overlooking the ...
... tion of the basic covenantal relationship between deity and people so richly described in Deuteronomy ( Gerbrandt 1986 : 145-54 ) . Gerbrandt's way of putting it is that Israel mistakes the human king as the savior , overlooking the ...
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... tion of matters is that at least from the events of Mount Horeb onwards , God's expectations were clear and consistent and possible — and that the failures of the leaders and people to follow them were actionable . Sixth : picking up ...
... tion of matters is that at least from the events of Mount Horeb onwards , God's expectations were clear and consistent and possible — and that the failures of the leaders and people to follow them were actionable . Sixth : picking up ...
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... tion of his heirs in genealogies ; the narrative characterization of Sheshbaz- zar and Zerubbabel in the extant texts ; and the possibility of Benjamin or Saulide contenders for leadership in Yehud . The historiographical work of Paolo ...
... tion of his heirs in genealogies ; the narrative characterization of Sheshbaz- zar and Zerubbabel in the extant texts ; and the possibility of Benjamin or Saulide contenders for leadership in Yehud . The historiographical work of Paolo ...
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... tion . Spirituality presumes a capacity for self - transcendence over against that which is narrowly or exclusively self - centered while remaining rooted in the communal . The word refers to an inner dimension of a person where ...
... tion . Spirituality presumes a capacity for self - transcendence over against that which is narrowly or exclusively self - centered while remaining rooted in the communal . The word refers to an inner dimension of a person where ...
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... tion , and she counts on those processes being available when she reads . Ideology criticism has shown as illusory the sense that any of us reads objectively , works without presupposition or interests . Literary theory has shown the ...
... tion , and she counts on those processes being available when she reads . Ideology criticism has shown as illusory the sense that any of us reads objectively , works without presupposition or interests . Literary theory has shown the ...
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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