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Posted on 3/20/17 at 12:15 am
Posted on 3/20/17 at 12:15 am
What is the best book you have ever read (other than the Bible) about King David? I have seen a couple of biographies or one called King David: The Real Life of the Man who Ruled Israel.
Just unsure which one to purchase, so looking for suggestions.
Just unsure which one to purchase, so looking for suggestions.
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Posted on 3/20/17 at 6:41 am to LC412000
What history and the Bible/Torah says about him are very different, so most Christians and Jews won't like the purely historical literature.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:10 am to Roger Klarvin
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Christians and Jews won't like the purely historical literature.
Incorrect.
Also, shush
Posted on 3/20/17 at 10:21 am to Roger Klarvin
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What history and the Bible/Torah says about him are very different
Nothing vs Something
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so most Christians and Jews won't like the purely historical literature.
I guess the difference between almost nothing and a lot of something is a significant difference...
Posted on 3/20/17 at 1:31 pm to Roger Klarvin
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What history and the Bible/Torah says about him are very different, so most Christians and Jews won't like the purely historical literature.
It's too bad we don't have a view only time machine to see what really happened in history. To be honest we really don't know. Archeologist finds an ancient stone tablet with "history" written on it. We don't really know if what is written on there is true or not. The guy who engraved that tablet wrote what the guy in charge told him to in most cases, which may or may not have been fact. Sometimes events are recorded in multiple places world-wide so they are corroborated, but not often.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 2:03 pm to PurpleandGeauld
A time machine would probably show us that we over romanticize everything. In reality, David's time was probably filled with mud huts and raggy clothed people living essentially in the dirt. People probably had rotten teeth, bad hygiene and you wouldn't be able to walk down the street without being approached. His palace was probably great, but even that would probably be two steps down from what we imagine.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 3:16 pm to jeffsdad
His palace was likely a hut, too. Just a bigger hut than all the others. Bronze age Judea was likely a backwater due to the overall lack of archaeological evidence of any substantial civilization from that period. If David was a ruler then he was likely a chieftain or warlord of sorts, not a king ruling over a unified kingdom.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 11:36 am to Roger Klarvin
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so most Christians and Jews won't like the purely historical literature.
You don't think christians will like that he and Jonathan were probably lovers?
Posted on 3/28/17 at 5:43 am to bees everywhere
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Not true.
Well the Good Book does not say he's not gay.
It does say something to the effect of him loving Jonathan more than any woman. There are a lot of other ways to call someone your best friend without it sounding homoerotic.
Btw, while we're on the topic, Ruth and Naomi...total lesboz.
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