David's Capacity for Compassion: A Literary-Hermeneutical Study of 1 - 2 Samuel

by Barbara Green

Book Overview

In this book Barbara Green demonstrates how David is shown and can be read as emerging from a young naive, whose early successes grow into a tendency for actions of contempt and arrogance, of blindness and even cruelty, particularly in matters of cult. However, Green also shows that over time David moves closer to the demeanor and actions of wise compassion, more closely aligned with God.

Leaving aside questions of historicity as basically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 056768492X
• ISBN13: 9780567684929
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"