TY - BOOK AU - Green, Barbara AU - Green,Barbara TI - David`s Capacity for Compassion: A Literary-Hermeneutical Study of 1-2 Samuel SN - 9780567684929 U1 - B62.1 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - T and T Clark N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; Relevant Methodologies for Constructing an Ancient fictive Work .............1 Why a king choices of Saul and David Edges and Structures .............33 Competition and Choices: Kings Interlocked Constructing Plots ..........69 Presence and Absence :David and the Death of Saul the Narrator ..........111 David Consolidates his Rule characterization .........139 Fruits of Arrogance:David`s Poorest choices Converging five tools ............183 Fruits of Sufferings : David Experiences Compassion converging Three tools...........217 Daid Goes the way of all the Earth the Sixth tool: Narrative analogy ...........247 Reception and construction of David in a Western painting reading visual Art .............277 ER -