{"id":60879,"date":"2019-08-11T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T08:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=60879"},"modified":"2023-03-05T13:02:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T11:02:42","slug":"from-king-to-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/from-king-to-father\/","title":{"rendered":"From King To Father"},"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":[834,564,835],"acf":{"old_id":"60879","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"282","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The eloquent David is reduced to a sheer stammer of grief","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">19:1 \u201cAnd the king was shaken. And he went up to the upper room over the gate and he wept, and thus he said as he went, \u2018My son, Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! Would that I have died in your stead! Absalom, my son, my son!\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commentary: Much of the way experience transforms David in the course of his story can be seen through his changing responses to the deaths of those close to him. When Jonathan and Saul died, he intoned an eloquent elegy. When Abner was murdered, he declaimed a much briefer elegy, coupled with a speech dissociating himself from the killing. When his infant son by Bathsheba died, he spoke somber words about his own mortality and the irreversibility of death. Now, the eloquent David is reduced to a sheer stammer of grief, repeating over and over the two Hebrew words, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">beni `Avshalom<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cmy son, Absalom.\u201d Although the narrator continues to refer to David only as \u201cthe king,\u201d in the shifting conflict between his public and private roles the latter here takes over entirely: Absalom is not the usurper who drove him from the throne but only \u201cmy son,\u201d and David is the anguished father who would rather have died, that his son might have lived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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