Message of Samuel: Personalities, Potential, Politics, and Power (Bible Speaks Today)

Mary J Evans
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Mary J. Evans presents a passage-by-passage commentary on the books of 1 and 2 Samuel, focusing on struggles for identity and power that consume Israel during its transition from a tribal confederacy to established monarchy.
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The books of 1 and 2 Samuel witness the transition of Israel from tribal confederacy to established monarchy. As such, 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.

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.

Specifications
  • Cover Type
    Paperback
  • ISBN
    9780830824298
  • Page Count
    286
  • Weight
    0.73 lb
  • Publisher
    InterVarsity Press
  • Publication Date
    2004
  • Books of the Bible
    1 Samuel, 2 Samuel

About the Author

Mary J. Evans teaches Old Testament at London Bible College. She is the author of 1 and 2 Samuel in the New International Bible Commentary and Woman in the Bible, and coeditor of The IVP Women's Bible Commentary.

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