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Divine Perogative and Royal Pretension

Divine Perogative and Royal Pretension

Hardcover

Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, Book 264

OccultBible Studies

ISBN10: 1850759308
ISBN13: 9781850759300
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Sep 1 1998
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.82 Depth: 8.48
Language: English

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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