The fate of justice and righteousness during David's reign : rereading the court history and its ethics according to 2 Samuel 8:15b-20:26 / Richard G. Smith.

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Smith, Richard G. (Richard Grady)

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 508. | T & T Clark library of biblical studiesPublication details: New York : T & T Clark, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 274 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780567008633
0567008630
1283191962
9781283191968

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fate of justice and righteousness during David's reign.DDC classification:

221 22

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BS1325.6.J8 S64 2009eb

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Contents:

Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 CRITICAL METHODOLOGY; Chapter 3 JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AS ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ETHICAL IDEAL AND HERMENEUTICAL CONSTRUCT; Chapter 4 REDEFINING THE COURT HISTORY ACCORDING TO 2 SAMUEL 8:15B-20:26 AS A LITERARY UNIT; Chapter 5 READING 2 SAMUEL 8:15B-10:19 AS THE BEGINNINGS OF JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS: DAVID'S ACTS OF Omitted AND THE AMMONITE-ARAMEAN WAR; Chapter 6 READING 2 SAMUEL 11-12 AS THE CORRUPTION OF JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS: THE URIAH AFFAIR AND THE FALL OF RABBAH

Chapter 7 READING 2 SAMUEL 13:1-19:9(8) AS THE PERVERSION OF JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS: THE ABSALOM AFFAIRChapter 8 READING 2 SAMUEL 19:10(9)-20:26 AS THE DEATH OF JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS: DAVID'S RETURN AND SHEBA'S SECESSION; Chapter 9 CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Authors

Summary: This work argues that 2 Sam 8:15-20:26 is a literary unit designed to show how David and his house failed to establish "justice and righteousness" during David's reign over all Israel. After an introductory chapter and a chapter on critical methodology the rest of the work is a close reading of 2 Sam 8:15-20:26 that pays special attention to narrative ethics. Chapter 3 makes a case for reading 2 Sam 8:15-20:26 as a coherent literary unit reflecting an ethical world-view grounded in kindness and having as its main theme "the failure of justice and righteousness to be established during David's reign." Chapter 4 presents a case for reading 2 Sam 8:15-10:19 as an account of the beginnings of justice and righteousness during David's reign in which David's kindness towards Mephibosheth is presented as analogous to a Mesopotamian royal declaration and was performed as an inaugural act of charity upon David's ascent to the throne

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-256) and indexes.

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This work argues that 2 Sam 8:15-20:26 is a literary unit designed to show how David and his house failed to establish "justice and righteousness" during David's reign over all Israel. After an introductory chapter and a chapter on critical methodology the rest of the work is a close reading of 2 Sam 8:15-20:26 that pays special attention to narrative ethics. Chapter 3 makes a case for reading 2 Sam 8:15-20:26 as a coherent literary unit reflecting an ethical world-view grounded in kindness and having as its main theme "the failure of justice and righteousness to be established during David's reign." Chapter 4 presents a case for reading 2 Sam 8:15-10:19 as an account of the beginnings of justice and righteousness during David's reign in which David's kindness towards Mephibosheth is presented as analogous to a Mesopotamian royal declaration and was performed as an inaugural act of charity upon David's ascent to the throne

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