Jeroboam’s Royal Drama
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Keith Bodner uses narrative criticism to engage the biblical text. Bodner pays particular attention to the literary characterization of Jeroboam. He provides a close reading of the text of 1 Kings 11–14.
- Title: Jeroboam’s Royal Drama
- Author: Keith Bodner
- Series: Biblical Refigurations
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jeroboam I, King of Israel; Bible. O.T. 1 Kings › Criticism, interpretation, etc
- ISBNs: 9780199601875, 9780199601882, 0199601879, 0199601887
- Resource ID: LLS:JRBMSRYLDRM
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-09T22:45:22Z
Keith Bodner (PhD, University of Manchester; PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Professor of Religious Studies at Crandall University in New Brunswick and previously taught for several years at Tyndale University College & Seminary in Toronto. He holds doctoral degrees in Biblical Studies from the University of Aberdeen and in English Literature from the University of Manchester.
He serves on the editorial board of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament and is a former section chair for “Bakhtin and the Biblical Imagination” with the Society of Biblical Literature. His 2008 volume, 1 Samuel: A Narrative Commentary, received the R. B. Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, and he has lectured extensively to both scholarly and general audiences.
Dr. Bodner’s publications include The Rebellion of Absalom (Routledge) and The Artistic Dimension (LHBOTS), as well as several recent works with Oxford University Press, such as Jeroboam’s Royal Drama, Elisha’s Profile in the Book of Kings, After the Invasion: A Reading of Jeremiah 40–44, and An Ark on the Nile: The Beginning of the Book of Exodus.
In addition to his academic work, he preaches weekly, is married with three children, and humorously notes that he cares for several particularly troublesome cats.