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Author | : Stefan Heym |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0810115379 |
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In this retelling of one of the great Biblical stories, King Solomon commissions Ethan the Scribe to write the official history of King David. 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?
Author | : Jonathan Kirsch |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2009-07-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307567818 |
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David, King of the Jews, possessed every flaw and failing a mortal is capable of, yet men and women adored him and God showered him with many more blessings than he did Abraham or Moses. His sexual appetite and prowess were matched only by his violence, both on the battlefield and in the bedroom. A charismatic leader, exalted as "a man after God's own heart," he was also capable of deep cunning, deceit, and betrayal. 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. In a taut, dramatic narrative, Kirsch brings new depth and psychological complexity to the familiar events of David's life--his slaying of the giant Goliath and his swift challenge to the weak rule of Saul, the first Jewish king; his tragic relationship with Saul's son Jonathan, David's cherished friend (and possibly lover); his celebrated reign in Jerusalem, where his dynasty would hold sway for generations. Yet for all his greatness, David was also a man in thrall to his passions--a voracious lover who secured the favors of his beautiful mistress Bathsheba by secretly arranging the death of her innocent husband; a merciless warrior who triumphed through cruelty; a troubled father who failed to protect his daughter from rape and whose beloved son Absalom rose against him in armed insurrection. Weaving together biblical texts with centuries of interpretation and commentary, Jonathan Kirsch brings King David to life in these pages with extraordinary freshness, intimacy, and vividness of detail. At the center of this inspiring narrative stands a hero of flesh and blood--not the cartoon giant-slayer of sermons and Sunday school stories or the immaculate ruler of legend and art but a magnetic, disturbingly familiar man--a man as vibrant and compelling today as he has been for millennia.
Author | : Gladys Schmitt |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9780385279000 |
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Author | : David M. Gunn |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 0905774051 |
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Author | : Robert Alter |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2009-10-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0393070255 |
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"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 of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.
Author | : David Steinberg |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2007-06-12 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1416545565 |
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From award-winning comedian, director, writer, and producer David Steinberg comes the totally original, utterly blasphemous, and hysterically funny memoir of a young man who emerged from a traditional Jewish childhood to become an international star—all because, it seems, he kept God in stitches. David Steinberg was raised in Winnipeg, Canada, by parents who expected little from him. And no wonder. Instead of studying Talmud in order to become a rabbi, he chose to major in Martin and Lewis with a minor in basketball. As David imagines the story of his life (since his success otherwise makes no sense), God one day spotted him on the playground and decided that this young man with no ambition could go far with His help. Sure enough, God soon had David on network TV and Broadway, and selling out nightclubs across the country—as well as being pursued by hot starlets. The Book of David is David Steinberg's hilarious trip down memory lane, assuming that the lane has a biblical address. This wild riff on the Old Testament is guaranteed laughter.
Author | : Greg S. Baker |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781724620989 |
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A King David Novel (Book Two of the Davidic Chronicles) Book two of the Davidic Chronicles continues to follow David as he emerges as a warrior and leader among men. Marked for death by the Philistines and despised by his king, young David must navigate the many conspiracies that threaten to end his life and defeat God's anointing on his life. Inside Valiant... Saul sat hunched over, his trembling body growing fiercer. Suddenly he threw back his head with such violence that David started in surprise, and he missed a chord on his harp. As the disjointed note floated in the air, a rattling sound issued from Saul's throat, and he spoke in a voice not his own, "Is Jehovah a man that He should repent? Nay, for He has rejected the son of Kish and shall rend his kingdom from before his eyes and give it unto his neighbor, the son of Jesse, and to his seed after." And then the evil spirit deserted Saul, but not until a spirit of anxiety and worry had descended on the house of King Saul upon hearing those prophetic words. The king seemed to gather himself, his body still trembling, and his eyes, as they locked onto David, were red. He rose to his feet then, staring at David in such cold fury that the young harper recoiled as if stung. David didn't know what to do. He sat motionless in a cold sweat, his heart threatening to beat itself right out of his chest. "My lord," David tried to say, his voice sounding hoarse and broken. "I-" "Nay!" Saul bellowed. "Nay! I will not let you bereft me of mine!" With the speed of a trained warrior, Saul spun his javelin into a throwing grip and hurled it with stunning force straight at David's chest. David threw himself aside just in time. The javelin's heavy iron head smashed into the wooden wall right where David had been sitting. The force splintered the wood, and the shaft quivered in place like an angry viper robbed of its kill.
Author | : Thurston Clarke |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2016-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1504029860 |
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On July 22, 1946 six members of the Irgun, a Jewish underground group headed by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, entered the basement of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel and planted seven milk churns filled with explosives underneath the wing housing the headquarters of the British Mandatory Government of Palestine. The ensuing explosion killed ninety-one Britons, Arabs, and Jews, in roughly equal numbers, at the time the greatest death toll in any single act of terrorism. The bombing was a pivotal moment in Israeli and Palestinian history, and was one of several dramatic attacks that eventually persuaded the British to leave Palestine. Clarke’s minute-by-minute account of the attack is thrilling, and his narrative brings the perpetrators and victims vividly to life.
Author | : Nancy I. Sanders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9780310744757 |
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Provides a biography of King David, a ruler who went from shepherd to warrior to king.
Author | : Kyle Baker |
Publisher | : DC Comics |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : |
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David begins the book as a scruffy Dennis-the-Menace like kid and ends the book as a vain, hunky womanizer.