RT Book
T1 David's capacity for compassion: a literary-hermeneutical study of 1-2 Samuel
T2 Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies Old Testament studies
JF Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies
A1 Green, Barbara 1946-
LA English
PP London Oxford New York New Delhi Sydney
PB Bloomsbury International Clark
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1645103099
AB 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
AB 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
NO Bibliography: pages 295-305
CN BS1325.52
SN 9780567673589
SN 0567673588
K1 David : King of Israel
K1 Bible : Samuel : Criticism, interpretation, etc