This book deals with the question of how to understand the prolonged coexistence of Saul and David in 1 Sam 16-31. This work examines the narrative and theological relationship between the two causalities, namely God's intervention and man's initiatives, and highlights the impact of the double causality on the delay of the royal succession, in its narrative setting.
Takao Onishi is a lecturer in biblical theology at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. After studying French literature at the University of Tokyo, he went on to study theology, biblical languages, and exegesis in Paris (Centre Sèvres). Particularly interested in narrative analysis, he continued his doctoral studies in Rome (Pontifical Gregorian University), where he obtained his doctorate in biblical theology.