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5 - Saul the Undead and David the Bringer of Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2025

By
Stephen B. Chapman
Edited by
Keith Bodner
Keith Bodner
Affiliation:
Crandall University, Canada
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Summary

When the Israelite leadership ask for a king like all the other nations, it introduces a new sequence of powerful characters into the storyline.

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SamuelSaulDavidmonarchyMichalJonathan
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The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Narrative , pp. 99 - 117
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Selected Further Reading

Bodner, Keith. 1 Samuel: A Narrative Commentary. HBM 19. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2008.Google Scholar
Brenner-Idan, Athalya. The Israelite Woman: Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative. 2nd edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.Google Scholar
Chapman, Stephen B. 1 Samuel as Christian Scripture: A Theological Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016.Google Scholar
Frontain, Raymond-Jean, and Wojcik, Jan, eds. The David Myth in Western Literature. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1980.Google Scholar
Gosselin, Edward A. The King’s Progress to Jerusalem: Some Interpretations of David during the Reformation Period and their Patristic and Medieval Background. Malibu, CA: Undena, 1976.Google Scholar
Halbertal, Moshe, and Holmes, Stephen. The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.Google Scholar
Lauro, Sarah Juliet, ed. Zombie Theory: A Reader. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Levenson, Jon. Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Wilson, Emily R. Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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