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By Claudia V. Camp, Tod Linafelt, Timothy Beal

ISBN-10: 056751546X

ISBN-13: 9780567515469

Celebrating the 500th quantity, this Festschrift honors David M. Gunn, one of many founders of the magazine of previous testomony experiences, later the Library of Hebrew Bible/Old testomony experiences, and provides essays representing state of the art interpretations of the David fabric within the Hebrew Bible and later literary and pop culture. Essays partly One, in relation to David, current David in courting to different characters in Samuel. those essays display the price of shut examining, research of literary constitution, and artistic, disciplined readerly mind's eye in studying biblical texts often and figuring out the nature of David particularly. half , interpreting David, expands the narrative horizon. those essays research using the David personality in better biblical narrative contexts. David is known as a literary icon that communicates and disrupts which means in numerous methods in several context. extra complicated modes of interpretation input in, together with theories of metaphor, reminiscence and historical past, psychoanalysis, and post-colonialism. half 3, making a song David, shifts the point of interest to the portrayal of David as singer and psalmist, interweaving in at the same time informative methods either with visible facts from the traditional close to East depicting court docket musicians and with the titles and language of the biblical psalms. half 4, Receiving David, highlights moments within the lengthy historical past of interpretation of the king in pop culture, together with poetry, visible artwork, theatre, and children's literature. ultimately, the essays partially 5, Re-locating David, characterize a number of the intellectually and ethically very important interpretative paintings occurring in contexts outdoor the U.S. and Europe.

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However. the reader, who has seen the plot unfold, can only be appalled. The king' s guilt quickly emerges as a matter of propbetic record; and, in the next three scenes in which David learns of someone's death. he is cast in the role of the grieving father. Within the reward-retribution logic of the DtrH, David pays for his crime(s) in a fearfully symmetrical way. And the reader is invited in close to see the wages of sin in the painful reality ofthe royal sinner. In an ironic realization of David's comment to the messenger from the battle at Rabbah-"the sword devours now one and now another" (11 :2S)-the reader must witness the sword destroying members of the king's own household and recognize, along with David, his role in charting its destructive course.

5. 19. Randall C. Bailey, David in Love and War: The PurSllil ofPower in 2 SamlIel 10-12 (JSOTSup 75; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1990),42. QUESADA King David and Tidings of Death 13 "console" her. The narrative, which has lingered over one painful week, now collapses nine months into part of one verse: ••... he went to her and lay with her. She bore a son and she named him Solomon ..... (v. 24). The Wages o/Sin: Part II, Amnon's Death Mourning-feigned and real-will overshadow the next several chapters, as will death-social, rumored, and literal.

The Faces ofDavid (JSOTSup 242; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1997). Noll observes, " ... this Lament extols its fallen heroes above and beyond what is necessary to accomplish David's propagandistic goals" (p. 108). 8 The Fate ofKing David Although he accepted Joab's panicky rebuke in silence,lo David makes extensive and emphatic response to news of Abner's death. David swears his, and his kingdom' s, innocence of the crime. Although be bad ordered the execution of the nameless Amalekite messenger in ch.

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