{"product_id":"david-saul-and-god-rediscovering-an-ancient-story-hardcover","title":"David, Saul, and God: Rediscovering an Ancient Story - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Borgman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 less heroic 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 Hebrew narrative 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 insists on such questions, says Borgman, slowly disclosing answers through patterns of repeated scenarios and dominant\u003cbr\u003emotifs that yield, finally, the supreme work of storytelling in ancient literature. Borgman concludes with a comparison with Homer's storytelling technique, demontrating that the David story is indeed a masterpiece and David (as Baruch Halpern has said) \"the first truly modern human.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Borgman\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at Gordon College. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eGenesis: The Story We Haven't Heard\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Way According to Luke: Hearing the Whole Story of Luke Acts\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.12 x 9.21 x 6.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454606196914,"sku":"9780195331608","price":123.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/d9351937826ae440ccc67ae744143073.webp?v=1778855647","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/david-saul-and-god-rediscovering-an-ancient-story-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}