Divine Perogative and Royal Pretension: Pragmatics, Poetics and Polemics in a Narrative Sequence about David (2 Samuel 5.17-7.29) (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 264) - Hardcover

Murray, Donald F.

 
9781850759300: Divine Perogative and Royal Pretension: Pragmatics, Poetics and Polemics in a Narrative Sequence about David (2 Samuel 5.17-7.29) (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 264)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1850759308 ISBN 13: 9781850759300
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998

Synopsis

In this close reading of a text central to the story of David, the author, using the tools of linguistic pragmatics and poetics, exposes the text's promotion of a prophetic-based ideology, through a polemical rhetoric that polarizes David and Yahweh around the opposed notions of king (melek) and leader (nagid). He then goes on to analyse the context, in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology and in Samuel, for how the text develops this opposition, and finally reflects on its promulgation of the supreme mediacy of the prophetic word.

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About the Authors

Andrew Mein is Lecturer in Old Testament at the University of Durham, UK.

Claudia V. Camp is Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA and was on the steering committee of the Seminar. She is currently co-general editor of the LHBOTS series, as well as the author or editor of 4 books and numerous articles.

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Publisher
Sheffield Academic Press
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1850759308
ISBN 13 
9781850759300
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
350