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

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.