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David Saul and God by Paul Borgman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Paul Borgman

Current price: $42.95
David Saul and God by Paul Borgman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
David Saul and God by Paul Borgman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

David Saul and God by Paul Borgman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Paul Borgman

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The biblical story of King David and his conflict with King Saul (1 and 2 Samuel) is one of the most colorful and perennially popular in the Hebrew Bible. In recent years this story has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, much of it devoted to showing that David was a far lessheroic character than appears on the surface. Indeed, more than one has painted David as a despicable tyrant. Paul Borgman provides a counter-reading to these studies, through an attentive reading of the narrative patterns of the text. He focuses on one of the key features of ancient Hebrewnarrative poetics - repeated patterns - taking special note of even the small variations each time a pattern recurs. He argues that such 'hearing cues' would have alerted an ancient audience to the answers to such questions as 'Who is David?' and 'What is so wrong with Saul?' The narrative insistson such questions, says Borgman, slowly disclosing answers through patterns of repeated scenarios and dominant motifs that yield, finally, the supreme work of storytelling in ancient literature. Borgman concludes with a comparison with Homer's storytelling technique, demontrating that the Davidstory is indeed a masterpiece and David (as Baruch Halpern has said) 'the first truly modern human.' | David Saul and God by Paul Borgman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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