- 432 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 'A DIFFERENT CLAY': GENRE CONSIDERATIONS AND 1 SAMUEL 1–3
- Chapter 2 LOOKING LETHAL: CHRONOTOPIC REPRESENTATION OF THE ARK (1 SAMUEL 4–7)
- Chapter 3 SAUL'S SKIN: THE AUTHORING OF A KING AND A HERO (1 SAMUEL 8–12)
- Chapter 4 INCAPACITY FOR ANSWERABILITY: THE FIRING OF KING SAUL (1 SAMUEL 13–15)
- Chapter 5 AT THE EDGE: SAUL'S DISCOURSES OF DESIRE (1 SAMUEL 16–19)
- Chapter 6 'ONLY I AM LEFT TO TELL THE TALE' : PURSUIT AND ESCAPE, SURPLUS AND SURVIVAL (1 SAMUEL 20–23)
- Chapter 7 SLUNG FROM THE HOLLOW OF A SLING: LOOPHOLE LANGUAGE AND THE STALKING OF SAUL (1 SAMUEL 24–26)
- Chapter 8 HOW THE MIGHTY FELL: THE DEATH OF KING SAUL AND THE ARCHITECTONICS OF HIS CHARACTERIZATION (1 SAMUEL 27–2 SAMUEL 1)
- A: CONCLUSION
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors