LEADER 02659nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910782385503321 005 20230607222215.0 010 $a1-281-84186-2 010 $a9786611841867 010 $a0-567-00943-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000542361 035 $a(EBL)436768 035 $a(OCoLC)277006110 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000259080 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12112436 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259080 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10274310 035 $a(PQKB)11739135 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436768 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436768 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10250557 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL184186 035 $a(OCoLC)893334426 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000542361 100 $a20020417d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThree faces of Saul$b[electronic resource] $ean intertextual approach to biblical tragedy /$fSarah Nicholson 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cSheffield Academic Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 1 $aJournal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;$v339 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84127-248-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [265]-270) and indexes. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Face I: SAUL IN 1 SAMUEL; Face II: SAUL IN LAMARTINE'S SAU?L; Face III: HENCHARD IN HARDY'S THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors 330 $aA fascinating intertextual study of the classic biblical tragedy of Saul, the first king of Israel, as first narrated in biblical narrative and later reworked in Lamartine's drama Saul: Trage?die and Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. Plot and characterization are each explored in detail in this study, and in each of the narrations the hero's tragic fate emerges both as the result of a character flaw and also as a consequence of the ambivalent role of the deity, showing a double theme underlying not only the biblical vision but also its two very different retellings nearer to our o 410 0$aJournal for the study of the Old Testament.$pSupplement series ;$v339. 606 $aTragic, The, in the Bible 615 0$aTragic, The, in the Bible. 676 $a222.4306 676 $a222/.43092 700 $aNicholson$b Sarah$01489376 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782385503321 996 $aThree faces of Saul$93710061 997 $aUNINA