While «divine election» is a well-known concept among biblical scholars, the subject has mainly been explored in its relation to the emergence of the monarchy in Israel or within studies pertaining to the Deuteronomistic Historiography. Researchers have concentrated chiefly on t…
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Saul was anointed the first king of Israel, but it was a failed kingship, and it is a wonder that God's first anointed could fail. Apparently, the unforgivable sin of disobedience was the cause of Saul's disgrace; he did not exterminate the tribe of Amalakites and destroy all th…
In a contribution to the study of biblical narrative and the analysis of the Primary History (Genesis-Kings, Jewish canon), I argue that three biblical texts are mises-en-abyme. Mise-en-abyme is a term used by literary critics to refer to a part of a literary work that duplicate…
This dissertation is a literary examination of the Israelite request for kingship in 1 Samuel 8 with satire in view as its genre. Chapter 1 begins by introducing the problem and shows how scholars have interpreted 1 Samuel 8 and the initiation of Israelite kingship through time.…
Modern biblical scholars have increasingly characterized the story of David's rise to kingship as stemming from an originally independent and unified source that was composed in the Jerusalemite royal court for the purpose of legitimizing David's usurpation of Saul's throne. Sch…
This thesis examines David's masculinity in three selected passages---1 Sam 17:1-18:5, 1 Sam 24:1-22, and 1 Kgs 1:1-49, to exhibit the articulation of power through gender in the David Story. Since gender is fundamentally relational, I begin with an investigation of the interact…