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Record W2145876948 · doi:10.1177/030908920202700102

Is Joab a Reader-Response Critic?

2002· article· en· W2145876948 on OpenAlexaff
Keith Bodner

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal for the Study of the Old Testament · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicBiblical Studies and Interpretation
Canadian institutionsTyndale University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeCharacter (mathematics)Power (physics)LicenseCriticismLiteratureAestheticsPhilosophySociologyEpistemologyLawArtPolitical science

Abstract

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Throughout the David story, Joab is a complex and intriguing character. He frequently disregards or undermines the king’s authority, yet it is possible to argue that his actions are crucial for David’s hold on power to continue. A noticeable pattern of ‘interpretative license’ emerges when Joab’s conduct is analyzed through the numerous vicissitudes in the course of the narrative. Such interpretative license is acutely seen in 2 Samuel 11, where Joab receives David’s letter outlining the manner in which Uriah is to be killed, yet proceeds to implement his own version of the king’s plan. This act of ‘reader-response criticism’, as it is rather playfully appropriated in this study, is consistent with a number of Joab’s other (mis)deeds in the narrative. While his interpretative license arguably benefits his employer, in the end it would appear as though this kind of hermeneutical creativity has lethal consequences for Joab once Solomon enters the scene.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.049
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.059

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.049
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0150.029
Scholarly communication0.0180.009
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0090.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.104
GPT teacher head0.302
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2002
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