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    The Message of Samuel: Personalities, Potential, Politics and Power

    By Mary J. Evans

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    Reading the books of 1 and 2 Samuel, we witness the transition of Israel from tribal confederacy to established monarchy. And, as Mary Evans shows in this passage-by-passage BST commentary, during such a transition questions of identity and power are unavoidable.
    In the aftermath of the decline of the judges, priests abuse their priestly privileges; a people covets the centralized authority of its impious neighbors; and a throne is won, forsaken, redeemed, lost and found again.
    But in the key characters in this dawning era of Israelite history we see, hidden behind the faults and failings of Israel's best and brightest, the faithfulness of a God who looks on the heart and directs the path of every king and every kingdom.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIVP Academic
    Release dateApr 2, 2004
    ISBN9780830884919
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    The Message of Samuel: Personalities, Potential, Politics and Power
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    Mary J. Evans

    Mary J. Evans is a visiting lecturer in Old Testament and former academic dean at the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Addis Ababa, and a former lecturer at the London School of Theology. She is the author of The Message of Samuel and Woman in the Bible, and she is a coeditor of The IVP Women's Bible Commentary.

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