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Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative: A Rereading of 1 Kings 1-11 (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 436) - Hardcover
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Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative considers 1 Kgs
1-11 through the optics of propaganda and subversion with primary attention
given to subversive readings of portions of the Solomonic narrative. Seibert
explores the social context in which scribal subversion was not only possible
but perhaps even necessary and examines texts that covertly undermine the
legitimacy or the legacy of Solomon.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, Seibert develops
definitions of propaganda and subversion and notes other studies which have
understood certain biblical texts to function in these ways. Primary
consideration is given to developing a theory of subversive scribal activity in
this section of the book. An important distinction is made between "submissive
scribes," individuals who wrote what they were told, and "subversive scribes,"
individuals who did otherwise. Since many scribes were writing for the very
people who paid them, those wanting to engage in subversive literary activity
had to do so carefully, and to a certain extent covertly, lest they be detected
and exposed. Yet their critique could not be so obscure that none could detect
it. There needed to be enough clues to allow like-minded scribes to read the
text and appreciate the critique, but not so many that opponents could charge
such scribes with sedition.
In the second part of the book, Seibert applies this theory of scribal
subversion to various passages in 1 Kgs 1-11. An extended discussion is given
to 1 Kgs 1-2 with the remainder of the Solomonic narrative being treated more
episodically. The focus is on passages which look suspiciously like the work of
a subversive scribe and/or which have subversive potential. It is argued that
scribes could-and sometimes did-intentionally encode a critique of the
king/kingship in the text and that one of the most effective ways they
accomplished this was by cloaking scribal subversion in the guise of propaganda.
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Andrew Mein is Tutor in Old Testament, Westcott House, Cambridge.
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- PublisherT&T Clark
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0567027716
- ISBN 13 9780567027719
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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