{"id":101,"date":"2009-05-28T11:03:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T16:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/2009\/05\/28\/june-1-1-samuel\/"},"modified":"2009-05-28T11:03:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T16:03:56","slug":"june-1-1-samuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/2009\/05\/28\/june-1-1-samuel\/","title":{"rendered":"June 1 &#8211; 1 Samuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"david%20and%20saul220.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/lschnell.blog.uvm.edu\/ENGS131\/david%20and%20saul220.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are some homework questions for 1 Samuel (<u>do all the questions for your homework<\/u>).  Enjoy this book&#8211;it&#8217;s the beginning of an incredible story.  Remember that Alter has a great section on the two different introductions we have to David: reread that carefully from <em>The Art of Biblical Narrative<\/em> (pp. 147-53).<\/p>\n<p>1.  In a Jewish Bible, Ruth does not provide a buffer between Judges and Samuel.  What is the composite effect that arises from moving directly from Judges into the first story in 1 Samuel.  How do you understand this relationship?<\/p>\n<p>2.  Pay really close attention to 1 Samuel 8, the people\u2019s clamoring for a king and the anointing of the king that follows.  What is Samuel&#8217;s and God&#8217;s response to the people&#8217;s demand for a king?  What do you make of Saul as the chosen leader (ideally, you want to draw out certain details in the introduction of Saul and extrapolate a bit into this question)?<\/p>\n<p>3.  In class we will discuss the possibility of Saul as a tragic figure.   Do some preliminary thinking about this, and maybe a little homework.  What are the characteristics of a tragic hero?  In what way does Saul fulfill those characteristics?  In what way does he complicate that profile?<\/p>\n<p>4.  Why do you think the book is called \u201cSamuel\u201d (and not \u201cSaul\u201d or \u201cDavid\u201d)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some homework questions for 1 Samuel (do all the questions for your homework). Enjoy this book&#8211;it&#8217;s the beginning of an incredible story. Remember that Alter has a great section on the two different introductions we have to David: reread that carefully from The Art of Biblical Narrative (pp. 147-53). 1. In a Jewish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/abarnaby-bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}