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King David ranks among the most intriguing persons in the Hebrew Bible. The Second Book of Samuel tells the story of David’s kingship-his public successes and his private foibles. The narrator’s rehearsal of this story, as questioning as it is vivid, glimpses the secrets of David’s heart. In this commentary, Craig E. Morrison focuses on the aesthetics of the “art of the telling”: how does the...

anonymous infantryman. Known as “the Hittite,” though his name is distinctly Hebrew,27 Uriah is a member of David’s military elite known as “the Thirty” (23:39). The king desires the wife of one of his chief officers. Is this another reason that David was happy to evacuate the palace of any military personnel, including Bathsheba’s husband? Again, the narrator is silent. Could David take the wife of one of his soldiers with impunity? On two occasions, Abraham fears that rulers more powerful than
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