David's Truth: In Israel's Imagination and Memory, Second Edition / Edition 2

by Walter Brueggemann

Overview

In this completely revised edition of a true classic, Walter Brueggemann thoughtfully examines four different sets of David narratives. Each narrative reflects a particular social context, a particular social hope, and a particular community. Thus these stories offer a distinctly different "mode of truth" concerning this pivotal biblical figure. The tribe, the family, the state, and the assembly each has a different agenda and thus draws a very different portrait of the one who helps define them and is defined by them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800634612
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	06/07/2002
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is regarded as the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian of today. Among his many publications are Prophetic Imagination and Old Testament Theology.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Introduction: Truth in Its Strangeness

1. The Trustful Truth of the Tribe

2. The Painful Truth of the Man

3. The Sure Truth of the State

4. The Hopeful Truth of the Assembly

Conclusion: Truth Free, in Jeopardy

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Authors

Index of Scripture Passages