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...PROPHET & THE KING (382 pp.)-Shirley Watkins-Doubleday...
...Prophet is Samuel, aging and fallible last of the theocratic judges who ruled Israel until the 11th century BC The King is Saul, chosen by God, through a reluctant Samuel, to expel the Philistines and elevate Israel to "a nation among nations." Though young King Saul won peace and freedom for his countrymen, he was never able to win Samuel's trust or break the old prophet's hold upon a primitive, God-haunted people The story of the conflict between king and kingmaker, man and God, has been dimmed by divergent accounts in the Old Testament...
Double Irony. Saul, "a noble column of a man," first irks autocratic Samuel by winning famous victories with no active assistance from the prophet. Later Saul directly flouts God's will, as interpreted by Samuel, with the air of a man who gets his orders direct. Jealous of Saul and resentful of his own failing prophetic powers, Samuel sets about plotting the upstart king's undoing. Samuel's master stroke is to seek out David, the young poet whom Saul loves like a son. Though David protests his loyalty to Saul, Samuel whispers: "Saul has drawn down...
Life Is Death. Wilson's invisible man, the Outsider, may be described as a blend of existentialist hero, religious man without God, and prophet or saint-in-embryo. His dilemma might be described as that of a man living under the conviction of sin who cannot accept traditional Christianity. In the lines of Eliot's Ash Wednesday...
...criminal courts, winning acquittals for his clients and some $112,000 a year for himself. Bored with the businessman's Progressive Party, he switched to the Singapore Labor Party, vaguely socialistic and violently anticolonial. A flamboyant, pipe-smoking, bush-shirted political campaigner, he posed as the prophet of merdeka...