The reformed David(s) and the question of resistance to tyranny : reading the Bible in the 16th and 17th centuries

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    • DeLapp, Nevada Levi

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The reformed David(s) and the question of resistance to tyranny : reading the Bible in the 16th and 17th centuries

Nevada Levi DeLapp

(Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies, 601 . Scriptural traces : critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible ; 3)(T & T Clark library of Biblical studies)

Bloomsbury, 2016, c2014

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"First published 2014. Paperback edition first published 2016"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-228) and indexes

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内容説明

This study centers on the question: how do particular readers read a biblical passage? What factors govern each reading? DeLapp here attempts to set up a test case for observing how both socio-historical and textual factors play a part in how a person reads a biblical text. Using a reception-historical methodology, he surveys five Reformed authors and their readings of the David and Saul story (primarily 1 Sam 24 and 26). From this survey two interrelated phenomena emerge. First, all the authors find in David an ideal model for civic praxis-a "Davidic social imaginary" (Charles Taylor). Second, despite this primary agreement, the authors display two different reading trajectories when discussing David's relationship with Saul. Some read the story as showing a persecuted exile, who refuses to offer active resistance against a tyrannical monarch. Others read the story as exemplifying active defensive resistance against a tyrant. To account for this convergence and divergence in the readings, DeLapp argues for a two-fold conclusion. The authors are influenced both by their socio-historical contexts and by the shape of the biblical text itself. Given a Deuteronomic frame conducive to the social imaginary, the paradigmatic narratives of 1 Sam 24 and 26 offer a narrative gap never resolved. The story never makes explicit to the reader what David is doing in the wilderness in relation to King Saul. As a result, the authors fill in the "gap" in ways that accord with their own socio-historical experiences.

目次

1. Introduction 2. Calvin and Beza Set the Stage 3. The Dutch David: William of Orange in Davidic Dress 4. Andrew Willet and the Jacobean David 5. Samuel Rutherford and the Scottish David 6. The David Story: Gap-Filling and Reading Strategies 7. Bibliography

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