King Saul's Asking

From: Journal of Biblical Literature | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Jobling, David | Copyright information

King Saul's Asking, by Barbara Green, O.P. Interfaces. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2003. Pp. xxii + 129. $14.95 (paper). ISBN 0814651097.

Barbara Green offers a brief narrative commentary on 1 Sam 1- 2 Sam 1 that focuses on the character Saul (not to the exclusion, but certainly with much lighter treatment of other characters). In 2003, Green also published another book on Saul of close to five hundred pages (How Are the Mighty Fallen? A Dialogical Study of King Saul in 1 Samue...

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