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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...

DAVID IS THE DOMINANT FIGURE in Israel’s narrative. Only Moses receives as much attention, but the narratives concerning Moses move in a very different direction. More than by any other person, ancient Israel was fascinated by David, deeply attracted to him, bewildered by him, and occasionally embarrassed by him, yet never disowned him. David is one of those extraordinary historical figures who has a literary future. That is, his memory and presence keep generating
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