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Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative - A Rereading of 1 Kings 1-11 (Hardcover, New)
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Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative - A Rereading of 1 Kings 1-11 (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative considers 1 Kgs 1-11
through the optics of propaganda and subversion with primary
attention given to subversive readings of portions of the Solomonic
narrative. Seibert explores the social context in which scribal
subversion was not only possible but perhaps even necessary and
examines texts that covertly undermine the legitimacy or the legacy
of Solomon. The book is divided into two parts. In the first,
Seibert develops definitions of propaganda and subversion and notes
other studies which have understood certain biblical texts to
function in these ways. Primary consideration is given to
developing a theory of subversive scribal activity in this section
of the book. An important distinction is made between "submissive
scribes," individuals who wrote what they were told, and
"subversive scribes," individuals who did otherwise. Since many
scribes were writing for the very people who paid them, those
wanting to engage in subversive literary activity had to do so
carefully, and to a certain extent covertly, lest they be detected
and exposed. Yet their critique could not be so obscure that none
could detect it. There needed to be enough clues to allow
like-minded scribes to read the text and appreciate the critique,
but not so many that opponents could charge such scribes with
sedition. In the second part of the book, Seibert applies this
theory of scribal subversion to various passages in 1 Kgs 1-11. An
extended discussion is given to 1 Kgs 1-2 with the remainder of the
Solomonic narrative being treated more episodically. The focus is
on passages which look suspiciously like the work of a subversive
scribe and/or which have subversive potential. It is argued that
scribes could-and sometimes did-intentionally encode a critique of
the king/kingship in the text and that one of the most effective
ways they accomplished this was by cloaking scribal subversion in
the guise of propaganda.
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