David's truth in Israel's imagination & memory

"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.

Year

1985

Language

English

Publisher

Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Editions

1

Pages

176

ISBN

9780800634612

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