1 Samuel

Resource Information

The work 1 Samuel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

1 Samuel

Statement of responsibility

David Jobling

Title variation

First Samuel

Creator

• Jobling, David

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• trueElectronic books
• Bible, Samuel, 1st -- Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

1 Samuel is a national autobiography of the Hebrew people. David Jobling reads 1 Samuel as a story that is complete in itself, although it is part of a much larger narrative. He examines it as a historical document in a double sense: (1) as a document originating from ancient Israel and (2) as a telling of the past. Organizing the text through the three interlocking themes of class, race, and gender, Jobling asks how this historical - and canonical - story relates to a modern world in which these themes continue to be of crucial importance. While drawing on the resources of biblical narratology," Jobling deviates from mainstream methodology. He adopts a "critical narratology" informed by such cultural practices as feminism and psychoanalysis. He follows a structuralist tradition which finds meaning more in the text's large-scale mythic patterns than in close reading of particular passages, and seeks methods specific to 1 Samuel rather than ones applicable to biblical narrative in general

Member of

• Berit olam

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

222/.4306

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Berit olam

Target audience

adult