Divine Prerogative and Royal Pretension: Pragmatics, Poetics and Polemics in a Narrative Sequence about David (2 Samuel 5:17-7.29)
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In this close reading of a text central to the story of David, the author, using the tools of linguistic pragmatics and poetics, exposes the text's promotion of a prophetic-based ideology, through a polemical rhetoric that polarizes David and Yahweh around the opposed notions of king (melek) and leader (nagid). He then goes on to analyse the context, in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology and in Samuel, for how the text develops this opposition, and finally reflects on its promulgation of the supreme mediacy of the prophetic word.
List of Figures9Acknowledgments11Abbreviations13Ch. 1The Pragmatics of Poetics 1: Defining and Delimiting Contexts17Ch. 2The Pragmatics of Poetics 2: Defining the Text to be Read37Ch. 3David Deferent with Yahweh? 2 Samuel 5.17-2585Ch. 4David Different with Yahweh: 2 Samuel 6112Ch. 5David and Yahweh - From Difference to Deference: 2 Samuel 7160Ch. 6Yahweh and David at Home and at War: Plot and Theme in 2 Samuel 5.17-7.29231Ch. 7Yahweh and David Through Difference and Deference 1: A Transtextual Context to the Polemic in 2 Samuel 5.17-7.29247Ch. 8Yahweh and David through Difference and Deference 2: An Intratextual Context to the Polemic in 2 Samuel 5.17-7.29281Ch. 9Yahweh and Israel: Deference of Difference302Glossary of Some Technical Terms317Bibliography320Index of References331Index of Words345Index of Authors349Index of Subjects351
