David's capacity for compassion: a literary-hermeneutical study of 1-2 Samuel
In this book Barbara Green demonstrates how David is shown and can be read as emerging from a young naive, whose early successes grow into a tendency for actions of contempt and arrogance, of blindness and even cruelty, particularly in matters of cult. However, Green also shows that over time David...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Subito Delivery Service: | Order now. |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
London Oxford New York New Delhi Sydney
Bloomsbury International Clark
2017
|
| In: |
Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies (641)
Year: 2017 |
| Reviews: | David's Capacity for Compassion: A Literary-Hermeneutical Study of 1–2 Samuel, Barbara Green, Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017 (ISBN 978-0-5676-7358-9), x + 326 pp., hb £85 (2018) (Balfour, Rory)
|
| Series/Journal: | Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies Old Testament studies
641 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
David, Israel, König
/ Bible. Samuel 1-2
|
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Samuel
Criticism, interpretation, etc
B David King of Israel |
| Online Access: |
Table of Contents |
| Summary: | In this book Barbara Green demonstrates how David is shown and can be read as emerging from a young naive, whose early successes grow into a tendency for actions of contempt and arrogance, of blindness and even cruelty, particularly in matters of cult. However, Green also shows that over time David moves closer to the demeanor and actions of wise compassion, more closely aligned with God.Leaving aside questions of historicity as basically undecidable Green's focus in her approach to the material is on contemporary literature. Green reads the David story in order, applying seven specific tools which she names, describes and exemplifies as she interprets the text. She also uses relevant hermeneutical theory, specifically a bridge between general hermeneutics and the specific challenges of the individual (and socially located) reader. As a result, Green argues that characters in the David narrative can proffer occasions for insight, wisdom, and compassion. Acknowledging the unlikelihood that characters like David and his peers, steeped in patriarchy and power, can be shown to learn and extend wise compassion, Green is careful to make explicit her reading strategies and offer space for dialogue and disagreement Relevant Methodologies for Constructing an Ancient Fictive Work -- Why a King? : Choices of Saul and David (1 Sam. 8-18) : Edges and Structures -- Competition and Choices : Kings Interlocked (1 Sam. 19-26) : Constructing Plots -- Presence and Absence : David and the Death of Saul (1 Sam. 27-2 Sam. 1) : The Narrator -- David Consolidates his Rule (2 Sam. 2-8 and 21-24) : Characterization -- Fruits of Arrogance : David's Poorest Choices (2 Sam. 9-14 ) : Converging Five Tools -- Fruits of Suffering : David Experiences Compassion (2 Sam. 15-20) : Converging Three Tools -- David Goes the Way of all the Earth (1 Kgs. 1-2) the Sixth Tool : Narrative Analogy -- Reception and Construction of David in a Western Painting : Reading Visual Art |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Bibliography: pages 295-305 |
| ISBN: | 0567673588 |