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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.
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?
Part Two, Reading David, expands the narrative horizon. These essays analyze the use of the David character in larger biblical narrative contexts.
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.
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 ...
"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 ...
... blood. It is also clear that blood must not be shed when it is protected by vow. This may be seen when David's land ... guilt' risks obscuring.3 Indeed, David's cursing of Joab to the 'whirling' of 'bloods' his head with its many ...
David's story, writes McKenzie, "reads like a modern soap opera, with plenty of sex, violence, and struggles for power.""--BOOK JACKET.
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.
King David in the Valley of the Shadow of Middle Age