Men Behaving Badly

A book published by Paternoster in 2000 that retells and reflects on the men of 1 and 2 Samuel: Samuel, Eli, Saul, Jonathan, David, Amnon, Absalom and others. Its twenty-one chapters have titles such as "The Man Born To Be Tough", "The Man for Whom It Was Too Late" and "The Man Who Died Cold", and the introduction is subtitled "Why I Wrote This Book and Why You Should Put It Down". It reads the stories frankly as accounts of men as husbands, fathers, leaders, fighters and failures. Goldingay has posted the text on his website.