An innocent (well, innocent enough) shepherd boy uses his humble slingshot to bring down the gigantic bulwark-warrior of the Philistines, becomes the favorite subject – and eye of suspicion – for a powerful and mad king, becomes king himself, slays thousands in war, beds many women, dances before the Lord and yet ends up estranged from Him … the tale of David is the most complex, compelling, and ultimately human story in a text by no means short of such stories.Writers for centuries have responded to this story with variations of their own, from the wide-angle Cecil B. And little wonder: the story has everything. The Secret Chord by Geraldine BrooksViking, 2015The story of King David in what Christians so charmingly refer to as the Old Testament is virtually Homeric in the magnetic attraction it exerts on creative types.
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