The Reformed David(s) and the Question of Resistance to Tyranny - Reading the Bible in the 16th and 17th Centuries

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.>

Info autore

Nevada Levi DeLapp (Ph.D., Brite Divinity School at TCU) is currently Pastor at Calvin Christian Reformed Church, LeMars, Iowa, USA.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nevada Levi DeLapp
• Con la collaborazione di: Claudia V. Camp (Editore), Andrew Mein (Editore)
• Editore: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9780567655486
• ISBN: 978-0-567-65548-6
• Pagine: 248
• Serie: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Cristianesimo; RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, RELIGION / Reference, Christianity, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Bible readings, selections and meditations, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics