Authors: Walter Brueggemann
ISBN-13: 9780800634612, ISBN-10: 0800634616
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Date Published: July 2002
Edition: REV
In this completely revised edition of a true classic, Walter Brueggemann examines four different sets of David texts, both narrative and poetic. Each text reflects a particular social context, a particular social vision, and a particular community. Thus these stories and poems offer distinctly different "modes of truth" concerning this pivotal biblical figure. The tribe, the family, the state, and the assembly each brought a different agenda to their portrayals of David. Each fashioned different portraits of the one who helped define them and was defined by them.
Preface to the Second Edition | ||
Preface to the Second Edition | ||
Introduction: Truth in Its Strangeness | 1 | |
1 | The Trustful Truth of the Tribe | 8 |
2 | The Painful Truth of the Man | 33 |
3 | The Sure Truth of the State | 62 |
4 | The Hopeful Truth of the Assembly | 86 |
Conclusion: Truth Free, in Jeopardy | 113 | |
Abbreviations | 119 | |
Notes | 121 | |
Select Bibliographies | 137 | |
Author Index | 145 | |
Scripture Index | 149 |