Article: David: Biblical Portraits of Power.(Review) (book review)

David: Biblical Portraits of Power, by Marti J. Steussy. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. 251 pp. $34.95.

Written for both specialists and nonspecialists, this well organized volume consists of three different portraits of David (1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles, and the Psalter). The preliminary material includes editor's preface, acknowledgments, and list of abbreviations. Concluding matter contains notes, bibliography, and indexes. The main body of the work comprises five parts.

In Part I Steussy delineates three approaches to the biblical text--dogmatic, critical, and artistic--and their relationship to her methodology. She designates ...

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