Damrosch,
David, The Narrative Covenant,
San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers,
1971
Abigail
has brought out the moral meaning of the initial encounter of
David and Goliath, which was told in the spare form of an adventure
story. There is no theological commentary (in the first version
of the story), and David's use of the slingshot could simply testify
to his own cleverness in catching Goliath off guard with an unexpected
weapon. Now, in the discourse of the wise Abigail, David is brought
to a moral understanding of his own past and is guided to a more
openly faithful future behavior. (213)
