{"product_id":"9780814683835","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 He examines it as a historical document in a double sense: (1) as a document originating from ancient Israel and (2) as a telling of the past.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\"","brand":"Liturgical Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124075610352,"sku":"9780814683835","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814683835_p0.jpg?v=1763752215","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814683835","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}