David's Capacity for Compassion
A Literary-Hermeneutical Study of 1 - 2 Samuel
- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figure
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Relevant Methodologies for Constructing an Ancient Fictive Work
- Chapter 2 Why a King? Choices of Saul and David (1 Sam. 8–18) Edges and Structures
- Chapter 3 Competition and Choices: Kings Interlocked (1 Sam. 19–26)
- Chapter 4 Presence and Absence: David and the Death of Saul: (1 Sam. 27–2 Sam. 1)
- Chapter 5 David Consolidates his Rule: (2 Sam. 2–8 and 21–24)Characterization
- Chapter 6 Fruits of Arrogance: David’s Poorest Choices (2 Sam. 9–14) Converging Five Tools
- Chapter 7 Fruits of Suffering: David Experiences Compassion (2 Sam. 15–20) Converging Three Tools
- Chapter 8 David Goes the Way of All the Earth (1 Kgs. 1–2)
- Chapter 9 Reception and Construction of David in a Western Painting Reading Visual Art
- Bibliography
- Index