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The prose of the Deuteronomistic History (DH) is fundamentally dialogic, rather than straightforwardly monologic, when it speaks specifically to the questions of the identity, location, and future of David and the Davidic kingship in 1 and 2 Samuel. My reading investigates the p…

There is a problem with biblical interpretation. Namely, it has been unable to adjudicate between the three predominant characteristics of the Bible: its heterogeneity, its literary character and its theology. The Bible's diversity of voice does not lend itself to a singular int…

Value conflicts due to cultural differences are an increasingly pressing issue in many societies. Because Old Testament texts hail from a very different milieu to our own they may provide new perspectives upon contemporary conflicts and, in this context, the present dissertation…