David's truth in Israel's imagination & memory
By: Walter Brueggemann.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Fortress Press; Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: David, King of Israel; Bible. O.T. Samuel -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Description: "In this completely revised edition of a true classic, Walter Brueggemann examines four different sets of David texts, both narrative and poetic. Each text reflects a particular social context, a particular social vision, and a particular community. Thus these stories and poems offer distinctly different "modes of truth" concerning this pivotal biblical figure. The tribe, the family, the state, and the assembly each brought a different agenda to their portrayals of David.

Each fashioned different portraits of the one who helped define them and was defined by them."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-143) and indexes.