presenting her as a complex character, we do not learn the answers to these pressing questions, and thus in 2 Samuel 11–12 Bathsheba remains largely undeveloped. While all the characters in the David Narrative were multifaceted people in real life, the narrator grants that status to David alone. David is a complex, unfolding, and inconclusive character who, on occasion, steps outside his expected role and acts unpredictably. He is a bold experiment in the exploration of the human person despite