Fallen Elemental (Elemental Series Book 1)

✍ Scribed by Tamara White

• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 171 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B07R2BZ7CL

✦ Synopsis

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.;Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 'A DIFFERENT CLAY': GENRE CONSIDERATIONS AND 1 SAMUEL 1-3; Chapter 2 LOOKING LETHAL: CHRONOTOPIC REPRESENTATION OF THE ARK (1 SAMUEL 4-7); Chapter 3 SAUL'S SKIN: THE AUTHORING OF A KING AND A HERO (1 SAMUEL 8-12); Chapter 4 INCAPACITY FOR ANSWERABILITY: THE FIRING OF KING SAUL (1 SAMUEL 13-15); Chapter 5 AT THE EDGE: SAUL'S DISCOURSES OF DESIRE (1 SAMUEL 16-19); Chapter 6 'ONLY I AM LEFT TO TELL THE TALE' : PURSUIT AND ESCAPE, SURPLUS AND SURVIVAL (1 SAMUEL 20-23).