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King David Loves Bathsheba

Is what the historical David did or said more important than what the Bible relates?

By Ronald S. Hendel

In his final volume of poetry before he died last year, the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai wrote:

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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.