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","post_title":"How Ironic!?","slug":"how-ironic","old_id":"113167","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":78133,"post_title":"Josh Blechner","slug":"josh-blechner","old_id":"78133","first_name":"Josh ","last_name":"Blechner ","description":"Josh first finished the Tanach during Yeshiva in Mevaseret Zion. He and his daughter studied the Tanach again for her bat mitzvah. Josh has taught many classes on Tanach throughout the years and currently in the New Rochelle 929 group. When not studying for 929, Josh works as an in-house lawyer in New Jersey.","short_description":"Josh has taught many classes on Tanach throughout the years and currently in the New Rochelle 929 group, and is an in-house attorney in New Jersey. 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Everyone loves to misuse the word irony. In the Tanach, the text occasionally employs a literary device known as \u201cdramatic irony.\u201d Dramatic irony is when the audience knows more information than the characters in the story. One example of this is the story of Joseph and his brothers. The reader knows that the viceroy of Egypt is really Joseph, but the brothers themselves do not know.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here, chapter 16 employs a different type of irony- situational irony. Situational irony is when the outcome is something\u00a0 people do not expect at all. A famous example of this is in the Wizard of Oz where everyone in Oz thinks that the Wizard is all powerful, but in the end it turns out that he is just a man behind a curtain. On David\u2019s solemn march out of Jerusalem he encounters a man walking with donkeys laden with food. The scene is reminiscent of Abigail's midnight trek to stop David from attacking her household. David sees the donkeys and wonders where Mephiboshet is. Ziva responds that Mephiboshet decided to stay back in Jerusalem hoping that in the chaos of Absalom\u2019s revolt and David\u2019s flight that the throne would be restored to the house of Saul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

David immediately revokes the promises he made to Mephiboshet in chapter 9. Instead, he tells Ziva that he can have all the lands of the house of Saul. On its face, David\u2019s decree seems just. If Mephiboshet did in fact rebel, then he should be stripped of the gifts David had bestowed upon him. If this was a case of dramatic irony, then the text would have revealed what really happened, and the reader would be able to judge David. But, the text does not give us the background. The reader is in the same situation as David who takes Ziva\u2019s word at face value. The situational irony appears in a few chapters when it is revealed that Ziva was lying to David.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why does the text employ this tactic now? By not revealing the backstory behind Ziva, the text allows the reader to sit in David\u2019s shoes fleeing Jerusalem. This adds to the drama of the situation and places the reader at ease with the main character. It also makes the reader react differently when the truth is later revealed. Did David act too harshly? Did he act too quickly? Or did Ziva properly calculate that a harried deposed leader would not have time for a full investigation?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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16:1 \u201cAnd when David had crossed over a little beyond the summit, look, Ziba, Mephibosheth\u2019s lad, was there to meet him, with a yoke of saddled donkeys and on them two hundred loaves of bread and a hundred raisin cakes and a hundred of summer fruit and a jug of wine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Commentary: The summit in question is of course the top of the Mount of Olives, where David has just encountered Hushai and sent him off to Jerusalem as an undercover agent. Polzin acutely observes that the two low points of David\u2019s abasement -- his humiliation by Shimei and the sexual possession of his concubines by his son -- both take place on an elevation: near the summit and on the palace roof. The Hebrew term for summit used here is <\/span>ro\u2019sh<\/span><\/i>, which is the ordinary word for \u201chead,\u201d and as Polzin goes on to note, \u201chead\u201d is an organizing image of the entire episode: David goes up the mountainside with his head uncovered in a sign of mourning, as do the people with him. Hushai puts dirt on his head as a related expression of mourning. Both Hushai and Ziba are encountered on or near the head of the mountain. Abishai is prepared to cut off Shimei\u2019s head.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And, as in other languages, head also designates political leader -- an ironic verbal background to this moment when the head of all Israel has been displaced. Finally, Absalom\u2019s usurpation will come to a violent end when his head -- the narrator does not say hair -- is caught in the branches of a tree.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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\u201c[T]hey pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he came to bed with his father\u2019s concubines before all of Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Absalom, making a play to usurp David\u2019s throne, takes his father\u2019s concubines on the palace rooftop for all to see.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As <\/span>I wrote previously<\/span><\/a>, during the monarchy, \u201cpower lay in the hands of whomever lay with the concubines.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

By sleeping with David\u2019s concubines \u201cbefore all of Israel,\u201d Absalom is publicly usurping the throne. And he does so on the same rooftop from which David spotted Bathsheba\u2014this story has come full circle; David\u2019s curse has come to fruition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are two wrongs Absalom is \u201cmaking right\u201d by raping David\u2019s concubines before all of Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One is the greater narrative wrong\u2014David\u2019s assault on Bathsheba and murder of her husband. The other is a personal wrong\u2014when Absalom\u2019s sister Tamar was raped, David stood silent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rape of two women\u2014Bathsheba and Tamar\u2014is \u201cmade right\u201d by the rape of ten.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is not the only time such \u201cjustice\u201d is carried out in the Tanakh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Dinah is raped in Genesis 34, her brothers avenge her by killing all the men in the town of Shechem. Then Dina\u2019s brothers take for themselves the men\u2019s wives, which \u201cthey capture [and make] their prey\u201d (verse 29 - Revised Standard Version translation).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Judges 19, the Levite\u2019s concubine is gang-raped, resulting in a civil war among the Tribes of Israel. When the war ends, six hundred women are raped to ensure that the surviving tribe will not die out.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The way these women fare and the \u201cjustice\u201d system they are victim to says a great deal about the way women were seen\u2014or not\u2014in biblical patriarchal society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In some ways it feels as if the barometer has barely moved for thousands of years. When a judge lets a rapist off easy because \u201che comes from a good family\u201d or \u201chas a great future ahead of him,\u201d not only does our society fail to see the victim, it ensures that more rapes will occur\u2014the rape of one woman results in the rape of many more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Until women are seen as individuals with equal rights and worthy lives of their own, until women are seen at all, we remain victim to a biblical-era draconian sense of justice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When David triumphs over Absalom, he puts his ten concubines away under guard, \u201c[does] not come to bed with them,\u201d and shuts them up \u201ctill their dying day in living widowhood.\u201d David\u2019s concubines are the victims of powerful men, used and then discarded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

May we learn from their story that women must be seen, that victims must be heard, and that the time has come\u2014even if thousands of years too late\u2014for a reckoning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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At the end of Chapter 16, we meet a nameless group of women. David\u2019s concubines are mentioned only over two verses, a short section that holds a deep well of pain and violence. In a deeply disturbing attempt at reifying his power, Absalom sleeps with -- it would seem, rapes, as the women have no option to opt out -- his father\u2019s concubines. The women have been left behind as others have fled, \u201cleft to mind the palace\u201d (16:21). The reader gets the impression that they are viewed as almost an accoutrement to the palace, an accessory that accompanies the building rather than members of the royal household.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The apex of Absalom\u2019s rebellion is this act of sexual violence. This is, per the advice of Ahithophel, the moment that will solidify his power, his complete replacement of his father. By having sex with the women his father has sex with, he will himself become the king. But, unlike many other women in the Prophetic books, these several concubines are silent. If they spoke \u2014 or screamed, or protested \u2014 the text does not report it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Absalom\u2019s rape of his father\u2019s concubines is shocking in its scale and implied violence. But it is not new. The event takes place on the palace roof; this is the same palace roof from which his father King David observed Bathsheba bathing and demanded her attentions. Acts of violence, in particular sexual violence, often take place embedded in a context that has created a situation in which they will be overlooked or downplayed. Absalom\u2019s assault is not even the first act of sexual aggression in the book to take place in that exact location!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Acts of violence are perpetrated by individuals, but also within systems. Absalom does not act alone; he is encouraged by Ahithophel, and he acts in a context where women are already being treated as objects, left with the royal palace rather than taken to safety away from Absalom. To combat such violence takes more than individual condemnations; palace roofs must cease to be places where men feel they can do whatever they want.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter concludes with Ahithophel advising Absalom to: \u201c\u2019Have intercourse with your father\u2019s concubines, whom he left to mind the palace; and when all Israel hears that you have dared the wrath of your father, all who support you will be encouraged.\u2019 So, they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom lay with his father\u2019s concubines with the full knowledge of all Israel\u201d (16:21-22). Scripture understands that Ahithophel\u2019s advice was generally accepted as sound: \u201cIn those days, the advice which Ahithophel gave was accepted as if a man inquired of the word of God; that is how all the advice of Ahithophel was esteemed both by David and by Absalom\u201d (verse 23).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash on Psalms (3:4) comments on this verse, that his advice \u201cwas as if a man inquired of the word of God\u201d. The Midrash notes that according to the Masorah, the word \u201cman\u201d is read (Qeri), though it is not actually written (Ketiv). From this Masoretic note, the Midrash learns that Ahithophel was not like a \u201cman\u201d, but rather like an angel. And consequently, in referring to his once trusted counselor, David lamented: \u201cIt was not an enemy who reviled me \u2014 that I could bear! It was not my foe who vaunts himself against me \u2014 from him, I could hide. But it is you [Ahithophel], my equal, my companion, my friend! Sweet was our fellowship. We walked together in God\u2019s house\u201d (Psalms 55:13-15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If his advice was held in such high esteem, it is strange that the expression \u201cAhithophel\u2019s Advice\u201d (\u2018atzat Ahithophel) has come to have the pejorative meaning of \u201cbad advice best not to be followed\u201d in modern Hebrew. How did that come about?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash (Yalqut Shimoni II, Remez 151) states that Ahithophel himself misread astrological signs, leading him to believe that he would become king of Israel. He looked at Absalom and advised him to have sexual intercourse with the concubines of King David, his father. Absalom asked in surprise: \u201cYou are telling me to possess my father\u2019s concubines?! Ahithophel assured him that this was indeed a divine decree, recalling that God had said to David: \u2018I will make a calamity rise against you from within your own house; I will take your wives and give them to another man before your very eyes and he shall sleep with your wives under this very sun\u2019\u201d (12:11).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ahithophel then went on to advise Absalom to murder his own father, David. Ahithophel was thinking that he would be appointed to judge Absalom\u2019s having slept with his father\u2019s concubines and then having murdered his own father. Having found him guilty, Ahithophel would then have Absalom executed. Thus, the way would be open for Ahithophel himself to become king of Israel in place of Absalom.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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David\u2019s hasty departure from Jerusalem in the previous chapter meant that he and his household had fled on foot and without the provisions necessary to sustain them, surely not the best way to avoid capture by Absalom\u2019s rebel forces. To his aid, came Ziba, servant to Saul and major domo to Mephi-Boshet, sole surviving son of Jonathan, whom we first met in chapter 4 and again in chapter 9. The chickens of foreshadowing (<\/span>see our comments there<\/span><\/a>) are coming home to roost.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ziba brought along donkeys for transportation, food and drink for the wayfarers, and spun a tale of conspiracy against David featuring his own master, Mephi-Boshet. If Ziba were to be believed, that son of Jonathan had set a new record for ingratitude: ignoring all that David had done for him on account of his relationship with his father, Mephi-Boshet had used the turmoil surrounding Absalom\u2019s rebellion to pursue the restoration of his ancestral rule. David responded by decreeing that all Mephi-Boshet\u2019s property now belonged to Ziba. When we reach the denouement of the Absalom episode, we will witness David doing a \u201cflip flop.\u201d Caught between the rock of the solemnity with which royal decrees deserve to be met and the hard place of the discovery that Ziba had lied about Mephi-Boshet\u2019s true feelings towards him, David declared that \u201che and Ziba should divide the property\u201d (19:30).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As though this were not enough of a blow to David\u2019s pride, no sooner had Ziba gone then Shimei son of Gera, another relative of Saul, seized the opportunity to heap curses upon him, jeering \u201cKeep going, you bloody wicked man\u201d (7). Here, David showed remarkable restraint, accepting these taunts as part of his divinely ordained suffering, and forbidding Abishai son of Zeruiah from striking Shimei. En passant, we recall that David had earlier exclaimed \u201cthe Zeruiah boys are just too tough [or savage] for me\u201d (2 Samuel 3:39), hinting at yet another score that will not be settled until we get to David\u2019s last will and testament (1 Kings 2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cBiblical Sources on Slavery\u201d<\/a><\/u> by Lewis Eron: An overview of slavery in Tanakh.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cShould Our Moral Values Trump Our Respect For Our Leaders?\u201d<\/a><\/u> by Josh Pernick: Explore Jewish sources about dealing with the powerful.<\/p>\r\n

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  1. David, Ziba, Mephibosheth.<\/em> This is the second act in the relationship that began 7 chapters ago (chapter 9), but it\u2019s not the last. Stay with us until chapter 19, to hear Mephibosheth\u2019s version of events.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. A pox on your house<\/em>. The curse that Shimei son of Gera hurls at David regarding the blood guilt of the house of Saul, states that he is about to pay for his misdeeds: \u201c\u201cGet out, get out, you criminal, you villain! The LORD is paying you back for all your crimes against the family of Saul, whose throne you seized. The LORD is handing over the throne to your son Absalom; you are in trouble because you are a criminal!\u201d (verses 7-8).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Crime and punishment<\/em>. Ahithophel\u2019s counsel, and its fulfillment on the roof, of all places, fulfills the punishment that Nathan prophesied to David for his sin with Bathsheba (whom David had seen bathing - on the roof): \u201cThus said the LORD: \u2018I will make a calamity rise against you from within your own house; I will take your wives and give them to another man before your very eyes and he shall sleep with your wives under this very sun. 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