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David’s Truth: In Israel’s Imagination and Memory is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

I AM DELIGHTED that Fortress Press has taken an initiative for a second edition of David’s Truth. I am especially grateful to K. C. Hanson, who has put major energy into the changes that make the second edition a more disciplined presentation of my argument. My publication of David’s Truth in 1985 came at a time when I was being reeducated in my work, away from a singular preoccupation with historical criticism and toward a new attentiveness to rhetorical and sociological
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