The Fate of King David The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon

by Linafelt, Tod; Beal, Timothy; Camp, Claudia V.

• ISBN13: 9780567515469
• ISBN10: 056751546X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

Celebrating the five hundredt

Table of Contents

Part One: Relating to David"David and Tidings of Death: Crises and Characterizations in 2 Samuel" - Jan Quesada"The Women in David's Life" - Toni Craven"Michal and David: Love Between Enemies?" - Athalya Brenner"Three Vignettes From the Life of David: Recollections From the Royal Court" - David Penchansky""Abigail and David" - Mary Shields"A Literary Pattern for David's Marriages and Why We Don't See It" - Randall C. BaileyPart Two: Reading David"A Broken Hallelujah: Remembering Justice and the Cost of David's House" - Danna Nolan Fewell"Heir and Land: the Royal 'Envelope' of the Books of Kings" - Walter Brueggemann"David Encounters Etai" - Francis Landy"Son of David, Son of Saul: Paul's Vanished Messiah" - Philip R. DaviesPart Three: Singing David "Danger and Rescue: David in the Titles of Psalms" - Robert Culley"Psalm 23 and Method: Reading a David Psalm" - David J. A. Clines"Penitent to a Fault: Reading 2 Samuel's David in Psalm 51" - Christopher Heard"A Sharper Harper: the Visual Context of 1 Samuel 16:14-23" - Carole FontainePart Four: Receiving David"A Renaissance/Reformation David and Bathsheba, or the Bible's Classical Cringe" - Yvonne Sherwood"From the 'Waters of Babylon' to 'King David': The Sexually Charged History of a Victorian Drawing" - Burke Long"Brecht's David" - David Jobling"A King Fit for a Child: the David Story in Modern Children's Literature" - J. Cheryl ExumPart Five: Re-Locating David"Through a Window: A Postcolonial Reading of Michal" - Judith McKinlay"Taking Tamar into Local Communities: Reading 2 Samuel 13:1-22 in Context" - Gerald West"Waving David Off" - Jione Havea"David in Palestine" - Alice Bach (Title to be finalized)