The Sword of Goliath

David in Heroic Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-12737-1
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 196 Seiten, Gewicht: 518 g

Reihe: SBL - Studies in Biblical Literature

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)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Isser, Stanley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Stanley Isser, Ph.D. (1973) in Ancient History, Columbia University, is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies at University of Albany, State University of New York.