The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel

by Stephen Holmes and Moshe Halbertal

Book Overview

How the book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraft

The book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the struggle for power inevitably entails. The Beginning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691191689
• ISBN13: 9780691191683
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"