| Description |
1 online resource (262 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Maps; Foreword and Acknowledgements; Introduction The Road To Samuel; Prologue Breakthrough: A Woman Re-evaluates a Man's World; Act One: The Prophet; 1. The Fall of the House of Eli; 2. In the Still of the Night; 3. Catastrophe; Excursus I: Israel in Canaan: How Did They Get There?; 4. Odyssey: The Wanderings of the Lost Ark; Excursus II: How They Lived in Those Days; 5. The Road Not Taken; Excursus III: The Problem of the Historian: How Did She Know?; Act Two: The Prophet and The King |
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6. The Coming of the King: The Anointing7. The Coming of the King: The Proving; Excursus IV: In What Sort of Houses did Samuel and Saul Live?; 8. The Coming of the King: The Second War of Independence; 9. The Prophet Armed; Act Three: The King and the Upstart; 10. The Boy from Bethlehem; 11. The Minefield; 12. The Fugitive; 13. The Wilderness Years: The Outlaw; 14. The Wilderness Years: Search and Destroy; Excursus V: David in the Wilderness; 15. The Wilderness Years: Abigail; Excursus VI: Why is there So Much Drinking Going On in the Bible?; 16. The Wilderness Years: The Dramatist |
| Summary |
This book, Volume I of II, presents a comprehensive analysis of the Biblical Book of Samuel. Usually taken as a socio-political history of ancient Israel during a century of change, this book contends that, at a deeper level, Samuel is a profound appraisal of the appeal and limitations of power |
| Notes |
17. Bitter Bread: In the Service of the Enemy18. On a Darkling Plain |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Samuel -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Samuel fast |
| Subject |
Sociology, Biblical.
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Sociology, Biblical
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780761849230 |
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0761849238 |
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