Provides a biography of King David, a ruler who went from shepherd to warrior to king.
Now, in King David: The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel, bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch reveals this commanding individual in all his glory and fallibility.
The remarkable excavation of a previously unidentified city in Israel from the time of King David, shedding new light on the link between the bible and history King David is a pivotal figure in the Bible, which tells his life story in ...
But Ethan finds another life behind the curtain that divides the past from the present--the story of a David who seduced, lied, bragged, and plundered his way to power. Ethan faces a dilemma. Which life should he write about?
"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one ...
We see ourselves in him. This is a literary dynamic journey of David's life, from his early days as an unknown nobody to overnight celebrity, and his latter days as a champion of the people to a royal sinner.
David's story, writes McKenzie, "reads like a modern soap opera, with plenty of sex, violence, and struggles for power.""--BOOK JACKET.
Saul looked like a king should look. So did David's oldest brother, Eliab. At least Samuel thought so: "Surely," he thought, "Yahweh's anointed stands before him!" (1 Sam. 16:6). But Yahweh rebukes Samuel: "Do not regard his appearance ...
Retells the story of King David from his defeat of the giant Goliath when he was a child to his covetous desire for the beautiful Bathsheba.
In this novel, Pritchard takes the reader into the mind of King David, as he struggles to intregrate mind, body and spirit, amidst the contradictions of the brutality of battle, the search for his God and reconciling his great loves.
Gunn sets out his aim in this book to foster a fresh understanding of the narrative about David in 2 Samuel and 1 Kings, commonly known as the 'Succession Narrative,' by arguing for its fuller appreciation of its nature as a story.