| Description |
1 online resource (x, 335 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Solving the story's mystery of David--and God, and Saul -- Saul : three anointings, two wrongdoings, one good son between : patterns 1 and 2 -- Who is David? multiple introductions : pattern 3 -- Saul and David--fear; sword and spear : patterns 4 and 5 -- David spares an enemy, three times in a row : pattern 6 -- The ark, communal well-being, and women : pattern 7 -- Failed fathers : personal indulgence, public woe : pattern 8 -- News of death--public and private Davids : pattern 9 -- Chiastic conclusion : warriors, leadership, and poetic reflection : pattern 10 (A) -- Chiastic conclusion : final contrast, soul and David sinning : patterns 10 (B) and 11 -- Conclusion : David and God, Odysseus and Athene : character and moral universe |
| Summary |
The biblical story of King David and his conflict with King Saul (1 and 2 Samuel) is one of the most colourful and perennially popular in the Hebrew Bible. Paul Borgman focuses on one of the key features of ancient Hebrew narrative poetics - repeated patterns - taking special note of even the small variations each time a pattern recurs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-319) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
David, King of Israel
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Saul, King of Israel.
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| SUBJECT |
David, King of Israel fast |
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Saul, King of Israel fast |
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Bible. Samuel, 1st -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Samuel, 1st fast |
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199715947 |
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0199715947 |
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9781435642645 |
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1435642643 |
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0195331605 |
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9780195331608 |
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