Divine prerogative and royal pretension
Subtitle: pragmatics, poetics, and polemics in a narrative sequence about David (2 Samuel 5.17-7.29)
By: Donald F. Murray.
Series: Journal for the study of the Old Testament.; 264
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Sheffield, England
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: David, King of Israel.; Bible. O.T. Samuel, 2nd, V, 17-VII, 29 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Kings and rulers -- Biblical teaching.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: English and Hebrew.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-330) and indexes.