How Are the Mighty Fallen?

by Barbara Green

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826462219
• ISBN13: 9780826462213
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.5"