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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 instru

Saul, --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 222.6 --- Samuelboeken. Boeken der koningen. David. Salomon. Elia. Elisa. Josias --- Bible. O.T. Samuel, 1st -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible. O.T. Samuel, 1st. --- Saul, King of Israel. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Shaʼul, --- שאול --- שאול, --- First Kings (Book of the Vulgate Old Testament) --- First Samuel (Book of the Old Testament) --- Kings, 1st (Book of the Vulgate Old Testament) --- O.T. Shemuʼel Alef (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shemuʼel 1 (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shemuʼel A. (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shemuʼel Alef (Book of the Old Testament) --- Saul, - King of Israel.