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Three Faces of Saul: An Intertextual Approach to Biblical Tragedy, by Sarah Nicholson. JSOT Supplement 339. London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. 276 pp. $90.00.

This book, which originally was the author's dissertation at the University of St. Andrews, takes up the question of Saul's portrayal in the Hebrew Bible and in two later works in the western world, Alphonse de Lamartine's drama Saul: Tragedie, and Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. These t...