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Reconciling violence and kingship [electronic resource] : a study of Judges and I Samuel / Marty Alan Michelson.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. : James Clarke, 2012, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 223 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780227901229
  • 0227901223
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reconciling Violence and Kingship : A Study of Judges and 1 Samuel.DDC classification:
  • 222.3206
LOC classification:
  • BS1325.52 .M52 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Front cover; Title Page; Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Thesis and Scope of Study; 2. Composition and Kingship in the Deuteronomistic History; 3. Abimelech; 4. Micah, the Levite, and the Concubine; 5. Saul and Kingship; 6. Assessing a Girardian Hermeneutic within this Study; 7. Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography; Back cover.
Summary: In Reconciling Violence and Kingship, Michelson argues that a literary reading of Judges to 1 Samuel reveals a deep rooted and intentional ambivalence towards kingship, due to its intimate connection with socially permissible violence. Michelson expertly constructs a picture of the difficult emergence of the concept of Kingship in ancient Israel, culminating in its establishment as a sacred institution with the anointing of Saul. Michelson uses a literary method to examine the use of civil and institutionalized violence in the biblical narratives of Abimelech, the Levite and the concubine, and.
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Front cover; Title Page; Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Thesis and Scope of Study; 2. Composition and Kingship in the Deuteronomistic History; 3. Abimelech; 4. Micah, the Levite, and the Concubine; 5. Saul and Kingship; 6. Assessing a Girardian Hermeneutic within this Study; 7. Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography; Back cover.

In Reconciling Violence and Kingship, Michelson argues that a literary reading of Judges to 1 Samuel reveals a deep rooted and intentional ambivalence towards kingship, due to its intimate connection with socially permissible violence. Michelson expertly constructs a picture of the difficult emergence of the concept of Kingship in ancient Israel, culminating in its establishment as a sacred institution with the anointing of Saul. Michelson uses a literary method to examine the use of civil and institutionalized violence in the biblical narratives of Abimelech, the Levite and the concubine, and.

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