{"id":61029,"date":"2019-08-13T07:32:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T04:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=61029"},"modified":"2023-03-06T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T09:23:51","slug":"a-literary-collage-and-coda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-literary-collage-and-coda\/","title":{"rendered":"A Literary Collage And Coda"},"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":"61029","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"284","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"An overview of the last chapters of the Second Book of Samuel\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On chapters 21-24: These chapters appear to be a series of appendices to the David story proper, manifestly written by different writers in styles that exhibit notable differences from that of the main narrative, and also certain differences in ideological assumptions and even in what are presumed to be the narrative data of David\u2019s history. It should, however, be kept in mind that creating a collage of disparate sources was an established literary technique used by the ancient Hebrew editors and sometimes by the original writers themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent critics have abundantly demonstrated the compositional coherence of Chapters 21-24 and have argued for some significant links with the preceding narrative. For that reason, it may be preferable to think of this whole unit as a coda to the story rather than as a series of appendices. The structure of the chapters is neatly chiastic, as follows: a story of national calamity in which David intercedes; a list (Chapter 21); a poem (Chapter 22); a list (Chapter 23); a story of national calamity in which David intercedes (Chapter 24).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The temporal setting of these materials is unclear but they seem to belong somewhere in the middle of David\u2019s career, and do not follow from the late point in his reign reported in the immediately preceding account of the rebellion of Sheba son of Bichri. The editors placed these chapters here, rather than after David\u2019s death, and then set the account of his last days, which they interrupt, at the beginning of 1 Kings in order to underline the dynastic continuity between David\u2019s story and Solomon\u2019s, which then immediately follows as the first large unit of the Book of Kings.<\/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, beg. chapter 21. 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