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David's truth in Israel's imagination & memory / Walter Brueggemann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia : Fortress Press, �1985.Description: 128 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0800618653
  • 9780800618650
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: David's truth in Israel's imagination & memory.DDC classification:
  • 222/.40924 19
LOC classification:
  • BS580.B889.D385 1985
Other classification:
  • 11.41
  • BC 6980
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: truth in its strangeness -- The trustful truth of the tribe -- The painful truth of the man -- The sure truth of the state -- The hopeful truth of the assembly -- Conclusion: truth free, in jeopardy.
Summary: Examines four different David narratives from the books of 1 and 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles. Each narrative reflects a particular social context, a particular social hope, and a particular community, thus offering a distinctly different "mode of truth" concerning David.
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Introduction: truth in its strangeness -- The trustful truth of the tribe -- The painful truth of the man -- The sure truth of the state -- The hopeful truth of the assembly -- Conclusion: truth free, in jeopardy.

Examines four different David narratives from the books of 1 and 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles. Each narrative reflects a particular social context, a particular social hope, and a particular community, thus offering a distinctly different "mode of truth" concerning David.

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