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Book: The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes

Chapter: 65. King David: Famous or Infamous?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.44926

Blurb:

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.

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