{"product_id":"berit-olam-1-samuel-9780814650479","title":"Berit Olam: 1 Samuel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBerit Olam: 1 Samuel\u003c\/strong\u003e by Jobling, David. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780814650479.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 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 He examines it as a historical document in a double sense: (1) as a document originating from ancient Israel and (2) as a telling of the past.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.\nWhile 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 texts 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.\nDavid Jobling, PhD, is a professor of Old Testament language and literature at St. Andrews College in Saskatoon. He is a co-chair of the Ideological Criticism section of the Society of Biblical Literature and a member of The Bible and Culture Collective. \"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Liturgical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67600445243445,"sku":"ByrdShop_0814650473","price":25.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780814650479_b00fc17c-6b6e-4ca3-bdff-5daa7de5e882_245ed98a-e416-407a-8b3f-e67322cd80c3.jpg?v=1792919572","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/berit-olam-1-samuel-9780814650479","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}