"The King lifted up this voice and wept": David's mourning in the second book of Samuel
This study is the first monograph that subjects to investigation all the pericopes relating Davis's mourning connected with human death in 2 Sam 3,26-39, for the infant born of Bathsheba in 2 Sam 11,27b-12,25, for the princes/Amnon in 2 Sam 13,23-39 and for Absalom in 2 Sam 18,19-19,9. Another...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Roma
Pontificia Università Gregoriana
2013
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Tesi gregoriana / Serie teologia (200)
Year: 2013 |
| Series/Journal: | Tesi gregoriana / Serie teologia
200 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
David, Israel, König
/ Grief
/ Bible. Samuel 2.
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Grief
B Bible. Samuel 2. 3,26-39 B Bible. Samuel 2. 18,19-19,9 B Bible. Samuel 1.-2. B David Israel, König B Bible. Samuel 1. 1,1-27 B Motivgeschichte Subject B Bible. Samuel 2. 11,27-12,25 B Thesis B Bible. Samuel 2. 13,23-39 |
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| Summary: | This study is the first monograph that subjects to investigation all the pericopes relating Davis's mourning connected with human death in 2 Sam 3,26-39, for the infant born of Bathsheba in 2 Sam 11,27b-12,25, for the princes/Amnon in 2 Sam 13,23-39 and for Absalom in 2 Sam 18,19-19,9. Another unique feature of this project is that these stories are read and interpreted primarily through the lens of the Hebrew mourning rituals - an approach that has been hitherto rarely embraced. This thematic study, adopting a synchronic approach and focusing on its literary world, first conducts a close reading of each aforementioned text and then takes a collective look at them in the end. Besides allowing new meanings to surface in the reading of the individual stories, it has yielded at least the following general insights: 1 The primarily ceremonial mourning acts are not to be taken as Literal expressions of the mourners' genuine emotions - an insight that is of paramount importance in the interpretation of certain figures at various places in the text. 2 The arrangement of the texts betrays a concentric design which strongly favors the reading of 2 Sam as one integral unit. 3. The study of the mourning texts also supports the view - noted as well by other scholars - which sees the portrait of David as a dynamic one, evolving and developing with the progress of the narrative plot of 2 Sam. |
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| ISBN: | 887839260X |