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Article: King David with the Wise Women of Tekoa: The Resonance of Tradition in Parabolic Narrative
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- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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LARRY L. LYKE, King David with the Wise Woman of Tekoa: The Resonance of Tradition in Parabolic Narrative (JSOTSup 255; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997). Pp. 211. 40, $66.
This book, a dissertation from Harvard University written under Jon Levenson, is a powerful indication of methodological changes and options in the field, especially important because it signals deep shifts at Harvard, where for a long time methods in biblical study were defined. The book is a study of 2 Sam 14:1-20, but more particularly of the (...) of the wise woman to David, at the behest of Joab, in vv. 6-7. The burden of L.'s ...