Murray Donald F. Divine Prerogative and Royal Pretension: Pragmatics, Poetics and Polemics in a Narrative Sequence about David (2 Samuel 5.17-7.29)

Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. — 360 pages. — (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 264). — ISBN: 1-85075-930-8.The Pragmatics of Poetics 1: Defining and Delimiting Contexts
Defining the Title, Delimiting the Subject
Delimiting the Text to Be Read
Prospect: Deferring the Difference
The Pragmatics of Poetics 2: Defining the Text to Be Read
What Text?
Text, Translation and Notes
David Deferent with Yahweh? 2 Samuel 5.17-25
Contextualizing the Text
A Close Reading of 2 Samuel 5.17-25
Narrative Structure and Technique in 5.17-25
Poetics and Ideology in 5.17-25
David Different with Yahweh: 2 Samuel 6
Contextualization
A Close Reading of 2 Samuel 6.1-23
Narrative Structure and Technique in 2 Samuel 6
Summary: Theme, Rhetoric and Ideology in 6.1-23
David And Yahweh — from Difference to Deference: 2 Samuel 7
Contextualization
A Close Reading of 2 Samuel 7.1-29
Rhetorical Structure and Technique in 2 Samuel 7.1-29
Ideology of Polemic in 7.1-29
Yahweh and David at Home and at War: Plot and Theme in 2 Samuel 5.17-7.29
Reader's Orientation
Plot and Thematic Development within 2 Samuel 5.17-7.29
Ideological Polemic in 2 Samuel 5.17-7.29
Yahweh and David through Difference and Deference 1: A Transtextual Context to the Polemic in 2 Samuel 5.17-7.29
Retrospect and Orientation
Royal Ideology in the Ancient Near East
Concluding Remarks
Yahweh and David through Difference and Deference 2: An Intratextual Context to the Polemic in 2 Samuel 5.17-7.29
Reader's Orientation
The Term nāgîd in the Hebrew Bible
Synthesis
Yahweh and Israel: Deference of Difference
Orientation: What Is the Difference? How Is It to Be Deferred?
Polarities of Governance: Between melek and nāgîd
Ideological Polemic and the Deference/Deferral of Difference