The Fate of King David : The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon (Paperback, NIPPOD)

Part One: Relating to David "David and Tidings of Death: Crises and Characterizations in 2 Samuel" - Jan Quesada "The Women in David's Life" - Toni Craven "Michal and David: Love Between Enemies?" - Athalya Brenner "Three Vignettes From the Life of David: Recollections From the Royal Court" - David Penchansky ""Abigail and David" - Mary Shields "A Literary Pattern for David's Marriages and Why We Don't See It" - Randall C. Bailey Part Two: Reading David "A Broken Hallelujah: Remembering Justice and the Cost of David's House" - Danna Nolan Fewell "Heir and Land: the Royal 'Envelope' of the Books of Kings" - Walter Brueggemann "David Encounters Etai" - Francis Landy "Son of David, Son of Saul: Paul's Vanished Messiah" - Philip R. Davies Part Three: Singing David "Danger and Rescue: David in the Titles of Psalms" - Robert Culley "Psalm 23 and Method: Reading a David Psalm" - David J. A. Clines "Penitent to a Fault: Reading 2 Samuel's David in Psalm 51" - Christopher Heard "A Sharper Harper: the Visual Context of 1 Samuel 16:14-23" - Carole Fontaine Part Four: Receiving David "A Renaissance/Reformation David and Bathsheba, or the Bible's Classical Cringe" - Yvonne Sherwood "From the 'Waters of Babylon' to 'King David': The Sexually Charged History of a Victorian Drawing" - Burke Long "Brecht's David" - David Jobling "A King Fit for a Child: the David Story in Modern Children's Literature" - J. Cheryl Exum Part Five: Re-Locating David "Through a Window: A Postcolonial Reading of Michal" - Judith McKinlay "Taking Tamar into Local Communities: Reading 2 Samuel 13:1-22 in Context" - Gerald West "Waving David Off" - Jione Havea "David in Palestine" - Alice Bach (Title to be finalized)