Endnote 22 – Erasing History

In “Text and Artifact: Two Monologues?” (in a forthcoming volume of essays, ed. Larry Silberstein and David Small [New York Univ. Press]), I argue that the main purpose of 2 Samuel is to acquit David of charges of serial murder, of which he was very likely guilty—which implies that the book stems from David’s the early part of Solomon’s.