Description: The Sword of Goliath offers a fresh view of the biblical story of David, shifting the focus from historicity to issues of genre and popular culture. Isser compares the biblical stories of David with other heroic literature, including the Greek heroes of Homer, King Arthur, and Robin Hood. He suggests that the David stories, most of them now lost, originated in popular heroic literature that continued to grow during the later monarchy and into the Persian period. Isser engages a wide array of biblical scholarship to illuminate the complexity of ascertaining the historicity of much of the David traditions. Readers will find here a new perspective on the biblical David that moves beyond the current historical debate in biblical studies. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
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Number of Pages: 196 Pages
Publication Name: Sword of Goliath : David in Heroic Literature
Language: English
Publisher: Brill
Subject: Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics, Biblical Biography / Old Testament, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament, Jewish
Publication Year: 2003
Item Weight: 18.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Stanley Jerome Isser
Subject Area: Religion, History
Item Length: 9.4 in
Series: Sbl-Studies in Biblical Literature Ser.
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Hardcover
