The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
65. King David: Famous or Infamous?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Baruch Halpern [+]
University of Georgia
Baruch Halpern holds a Doctorate of philosophy from Harvard University in Near Eastern
Languages & Civilizations. His research includes ancient historiography and continuity and rupture in social and cultural history. Among his publications are The Constitution of the Monarchy in Israel (Chico, CA: Scholars, 1981); The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988; reprint University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996); David’s Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003); and “The United Monarchy: David between Saul and Solomon,” in The Old Testament in Archaeology and History, Edited by Jennie Ebeling, J. Edward Wright, Mark Elliot and Paul V. M.
Flesher (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2017), 337–362.
Description
After God and Moses, King David casts the longest shadow in the Hebrew Bible and in the archaeological record. Politically, David constructed a new monarchic administration that remained governed by a shame culture in which affronts among the elite were questions of honor.