{"product_id":"berit-olam-david-jobling-9780814650479","title":"Berit Olam: 1 Samuel","description":"\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 He examines it as a historical document in a double sense: (1) as a document originating from ancient Israel and (2) as a telling of the past.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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid 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\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Jobling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814650473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814650479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liturgical Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.31h x 6.31w x 1.27d","brand":"David Jobling","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46311025475839,"sku":"9780814650479","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dfa898ad-44fd-4631-9c2c-83c3585d5c6d.jpg?v=1730887894","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/berit-olam-david-jobling-9780814650479","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}