TY - BOOK AU - Green, Barbara TI - David's capacity for compassion : : a literary-hermeneutical study of 1-2 Samuel / T2 - Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ;  SN - 9780567684929‎056768492X AV - BS1325.52 .G74 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - London, UK : PB - Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,  KW - David, King of Israel.Bible. Samuel Criticism, interpretation, etc.Bible. Samuel N1 - Relevant Methodologies for Constructing an Ancient Fictive Work -- Why a King? : Choices of Saul and David (1 Sam. 8-18) : Edges and Structures -- Competition and Choices : Kings Interlocked (1 Sam. 19-26) : Constructing Plots -- Presence and Absence : David and the Death of Saul (1 Sam. 27-2 Sam. 1) : The Narrator -- David Consolidates his Rule (2 Sam. 2-8 and 21-24) : Characterization -- Fruits of Arrogance : David's Poorest Choices (2 Sam. 9-14 ) : Converging Five Tools -- Fruits of Suffering : David Experiences Compassion (2 Sam. 15-20) : Converging Three Tools -- David Goes the Way of all the Earth (1 Kgs. 1-2) the Sixth Tool : Narrative Analogy -- Reception and Construction of David in a Western Painting : Reading Visual Art ER -