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Endnotes

1.

Yehuda Amichai, “David, King of Israel, Is Alive: Thou Art the Man,” Open Closed Open: Poems, trans. Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld (New York: Harcourt, 2000), p. 51.

2.

Steven L. McKenzie, King David: A Biography (New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000).

3.

For a different reaction, see Hershel Shanks, “King David, Serial Murderer,” BR 16:06.

4.

I am paraphrasing Aristotle, Poetics 51.b.6–8.