Description: Uses anthropology to investigate the moral dilemma facing Saul's daughter in 1 Samuel 19, concluding that her choice of David (over Saul) is counter-cultural.
Brief description: Dr Jonathan Y. Rowe (PhD, St Andrews) is Director of Development and Staff Tutor, South Western Ministry Training Course, UK.
Review Quotes: "[Rowe's] focus on practice theory fi ts nicely into the world behind the text, his use of a pseudo Bakhtinian theory has a world of the text focus, and the rationale for the study itself comes from the modern concerns (a desire to 'provide new perspectives upon contemporary value conflict) and hence of the world in front of the text." --Ellen White, Assumption College, Biblical Interpretation