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David's Capacity for Compassion: A Literary-Hermeneutical Study of 1 - 2 Samuel

David's Capacity for Compassion: A Literary-Hermeneutical Study of 1 - 2 Samuel

Green, Barbara
Quick, Laura
Vayntrub, Jacqueline

Paperback

Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 056768492X
ISBN13: 9780567684929
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: Nov 1 2018
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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