In Israel's Imagination and Memory, Second Edition

by Walter Brueggemann

• Biblical Studies & Commentaries

• Publisher: Fortress Press (Augsburg Fortress)
• Published: 2002

Publisher's Description

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.