This 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN-13
9780826462213
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94923339
Product Key Features
Author
Dr Barbara Green
Publication Name
How Are the Mighty Fallen?: a Dialogical Study of King Saul in 1 Samuel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Politics
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
860g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Dr Barbara Green
Series Title
The Library of Hebrew Bibles/Old Testament Studies
Topic
Christianity
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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