{"id":57928,"date":"2019-06-20T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=57928"},"modified":"2023-01-17T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T14:45:42","slug":"what-exactly-was-david-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/what-exactly-was-david-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"What Exactly Was David Doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"57928","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"249","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A phrase that reveals a seam line in the story","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And David would go back and forth from Saul\u2019s side to tend his father\u2019s flock in Bethlehem (17:15) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commentary: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And David would go back and forth from Saul\u2019s side<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last phrase has a sense close to \u201cfrom Saul\u2019s presence\u201d and is a stratagem for harmonizing the two episodes [of David\u2019s introduction in the previous chapter, and his re-introduction here-ed.]. It invites us to suppose that David divided his time between playing the lyre for Saul and tending his father\u2019s flocks. The implicit assumption, however, of the story that unfolds is that David is unknown to the court of Saul, and that any to-and-fro movement between Bethlehem and the front would be to bring provisions to his older brothers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hebrew Bible<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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