The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel by Moshe Halbertal, Stephen Holmes

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

Moshe Halbertal, Stephen Holmes

232 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction politics religion challenging informative medium-paced

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New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraftThe Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more t...

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