02692nam 2200601Ia 450 991045385980332120200520144314.01-281-84186-297866118418670-567-00943-2(CKB)1000000000542361(EBL)436768(OCoLC)277006110(SSID)ssj0000259080(PQKBManifestationID)12112436(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259080(PQKBWorkID)10274310(PQKB)11739135(MiAaPQ)EBC436768(Au-PeEL)EBL436768(CaPaEBR)ebr10250557(CaONFJC)MIL184186(OCoLC)893334426(EXLCZ)99100000000054236120020417d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThree faces of Saul[electronic resource] an intertextual approach to biblical tragedy /Sarah NicholsonLondon ;New York Sheffield Academic Pressc20021 online resource (281 p.)Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;339Description based upon print version of record.1-84127-248-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-270) and indexes.Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Face I: SAUL IN 1 SAMUEL; Face II: SAUL IN LAMARTINE'S SAÜL; Face III: HENCHARD IN HARDY'S THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of AuthorsA fascinating intertextual study of the classic biblical tragedy of Saul, the first king of Israel, as first narrated in biblical narrative and later reworked in Lamartine's drama Saul: Tragédie and Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. Plot and characterization are each explored in detail in this study, and in each of the narrations the hero's tragic fate emerges both as the result of a character flaw and also as a consequence of the ambivalent role of the deity, showing a double theme underlying not only the biblical vision but also its two very different retellings nearer to our oJournal for the study of the Old Testament.Supplement series ;339.Tragic, The, in the BibleElectronic books.Tragic, The, in the Bible.222.4306222/.43092Nicholson Sarah992785MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453859803321Three faces of Saul2273311UNINA