TY - BOOK AU - Jobling, David AU - AU - TI - Berit olam SN - 0814650473 U1 - 222.4306 CY - U.S.A KW - narration -- analyse -- `Bible AT Samuel I` N2 - 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 He examines it as a historical document in a double sense: (1) as a document originating from ancient Israel and (2) as a telling of the past.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 UR - https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/1/21/_177829529_140.jpg ER -