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Divine Violence in the Book of Samuel (Hardcover)
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Divine Violence in the Book of Samuel (Hardcover)
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Much of the drama, theological paradox, and interpretive interest
in the Book of Samuel derives from instances of God's violence in
the story. The beginnings of Israel's monarchy are interwoven with
God's violent rejection of the houses of Eli and of Saul, deaths
connected to the Ark of the Covenant, and the outworking of divine
retribution after David's violent appropriation of Bathsheba as his
wife. Whilst divine violence may act as a deterrent for violent
transgression, it can also be used as a model or justification for
human violence, whether in the early monarchic rule of Ancient
Israel, or in crises of our contemporary age. In Divine Violence in
the Book of Samuel, Rachelle Gilmour explores these narratives of
divine violence from ethical, literary, and political perspectives,
in dialogue with the thought of Immanuel Kant, Martha Nussbaum and
Walter Benjamin. She addresses such questions as: Is the God of
Samuel a capricious God with a troubling dark side? Is punishment
for sin the only justifiable violence in these narratives? Why does
God continue to punish those already declared forgiven? What is the
role of God's emotions in acts of divine violence? In what
political contexts might narratives of divine violence against
God's own kings, and God's own people have arisen? The result is a
fresh commentary on the dynamics of transgression, punishment, and
their upheavals in the book of Samuel. Gilmour offers a sensitive
portrayal of God's literary characterization, with a focus on
divine emotion and its effects. By identifying possible political
contexts in which the narratives arose, God's violence is further
illumined through its relation to human violence, northern and
southern monarchic ideology, and Judah's experience of the
Babylonian exile.
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