{"product_id":"the-reformed-david-s-and-the-question-of-resistance-to-tyranny-reading-the-bible-in-the-16th-and-17th-centuries-9780567667458","title":"The Reformed David(s) and the Question of Resistance to Tyranny: Reading the Bible in the 16th and 17th Centuries","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nevada Levi Delapp\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Biblical Studies - History \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45087605293207,"sku":"9780567667458","price":4976.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780567667458.webp?v=1767143088","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-reformed-david-s-and-the-question-of-resistance-to-tyranny-reading-the-bible-in-the-16th-and-17th-centuries-9780567667458","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}