Title: Divine prerogative and royal pretension
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Bible, Biblical teaching, Criticism, interpretation, Kings and rulers, Analys och tolkning, Narrative Criticism, Critique, interprétation, II Samuël (bijbelboek), Bibel, Vertelperspectief, Bibeln, Commentaires, Critique narrative, Rhétorique dans la Bible, Critique textuelle, Samuel <Buch, II.> 5,17-7,29, Bible, commentaries, o. t. historical books, Language, style, Pragmatics, Poetics, Polemics
People: David King of Israel
LC classification: BS1325.6.K5 M87 1998