UID:
almahu_9947414937202882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511520358 (ebook)
Content:
Using insights about ancient and modern tragedy, this much-praised study offers challenging and provocative new readings of selected biblical narratives: the story of Israel's first king, Saul, rejected for his disobedience to God and driven to despair and madness by an evil spirit from the Lord; the story of Jephthah's sacrifice of his daughter in fulfilment of his vow to offer God a sacrifice in return for military victory; the stories of the members of Saul's house, each of whom comes to a tragic end; and the story of Israel's most famous king, David, whose tragedy lies in the burden of divine judgement that falls upon his house as a consequence of his sins. Exum discusses how these narratives handle such perennial tragic issues as guilt, suffering, and evil. She suggests that the extraordinary range and power of biblical narrative has its source in the Bible's uncompromising portrayal of reality as embracing despair, as well as resolution.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Biblical narrative and the tragic vision -- 2. Saul: the hostility, of God. Excursus: hostile transcendence in the Samson story -- 3. Jephthah: the absence of God. Excursus 1: the awful and sustaining power of words. Excursus 2: Jephthan and his daughter: a feminist reading -- 4. The fate of the house of Saul. Michal and Jonathan. Jonathan. Michal. Abner and Ishbosheth. Rizpah's vigil and the tragic end of the House of Saul -- 5. David: the judgment of God.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521410731
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511520358
