TY - BOOK AU - Jones, Sathyaraju William TI - Reading the Fractures of Saul`s Rise to the Kingship of Israel: An Exegetical Study of 1 Samuel 9-11 SN - 9788194923114 U1 - BC16 PY - 2021/// CY - New Delhi PB - ISPCK N1 - 1 Sam 9-11 in Current Scholarship ......1 Statement of the problem.........3 methodology......12 Outlines.......12 Scope of the Study .......13 1. Status Quaestionis ......19 Assessment of the Scholarly Survey of 1 Sam 9--11...20 Christian E. Hauer (1967).......20 Dennis J. McCarthy (1973)........24 J M Miller(1974)......31 A D H Mayes(1978)....37 Thomas C. Romer (2007)......43 Jeffrey L Cooley (2011)......49 Comparative Study of the above Arguments......52 Part II : Synchronical Study 2. Delimitation of 1 Sam 9-11.........61 Problem of Delimitation .........62 Surrounding CHapters.....65 Walter Brueggemann (1990).....67 Gnana Robinson (1993).....71 Bruce C. Birch (1998).....74 3. Structure of 1 Sam 9-11......82 Unity of 12 Sam 9-11...82 Analysis of the Scholarly Views on the Structure of 1 Sam 9-11........88 Personal Analysis of the Structure .....98 Personal Proposal on the Structure of 1 Sam 9-11....102 4. Literary Context of 1 Sam 9-11........107 Immediate Context of Chs. 9-11....109 Remote Context of 9-11......113 Context of Deuteronomistic History ........117 Part III: Diachronic Study of 1 Sam 9-11 Literary Problems in 1 Sam 9-11.....125 Priliminary Observations ...125 6. Literary Analysis of 1 Sam 9:1-10: 16........136 7. Literary Analysis of 1 Sam 10: 17-27...225 8. Literary Analysis of 1 Sam 11: 1-15....256 Part IV: General Conclusion Exegetical and Theological Conclusion ....291 Exegetical Conclusions....291 Theological Conclusions ....294 ER -