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Bloomsbury Divine Prerogative and Royal Pretension - 2 Samuel 5.17-7.29

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This scholarly volume offers a meticulous linguistic analysis of a pivotal narrative sequence in 2 Samuel, examining how ancient texts construct royal ideology through prophetic discourse. Using pragmatics and poetics as analytical tools, the author decodes the text's rhetorical strategy in polarising David and Yahweh around the contrasting concepts of melek (king) and nagid (leader). The study situates this textual opposition within broader ancient Near Eastern royal ideology and Samuel's broader narrative framework, revealing how prophetic mediation functions as a central theological principle. Scholars of Old Testament studies, biblical narrative, and ancient religious rhetoric will find this close reading essential for understanding how linguistic choices shape theological meaning and ideological claims in foundational biblical texts.

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Employs linguistic pragmatics and poetic analysis to examine 2 Samuel 5.17-7.29 and its ideological rhetoric regarding royal authority and divine leadership.

Explores the opposition between melek (king) and nagid (leader) as central to the text's polarisation of David and Yahweh within biblical narrative.

Contextualises the narrative within ancient Near Eastern royal ideology and the broader Samuel narrative to illuminate theological polemics.

Investigates how prophetic mediation functions as supreme authority in the text's construction of divine-human relations and kingship ideology.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
01 September 1998
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19 February 2007

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