Abstract
The speech goes over the sermon text episode of David serving by playing music on a pluck instrument in the king’s court. In view of the overall biblical narrative of the rise and end of King Saul, from which the story originates, the question of the logics of (political) history in general arises. The later episode of Saul’s spearthrowing against themusician is interpreted through a painting of the artist Ben Zion (1897–1987) about this, itself inspired by a poem by Dan Pagis (1930–1986) on the same scene: how political and military power, when it wants to remain forever, becomes recognizable by the fact that it knows itself to be ultimately threatened bymusic and poetry and beauty and virtue and reason.
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