‘King David’, painting by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (il Guercino) c. 1768. (Credit: Wikicommons.) Listen The Lord Jesus warns us against “the blind leading the blind.” If we’re blind ...

Sinner, shepherd and warrior, David's name appears more than 1,000 times in the Bible. Best known for his legendary battle with Goliath, scholars believe that the real-life king had numerous wives ...

Israel Finkelstein’s vision of King David—the vagabond, ... He was working on a book called “Living on the Fringe,” which took up questions of human habitation in the ancient southern ...

The substantial historicity of the united monarchy of Judah — the reigns of King Saul around 1037–1010 B.C., King David around 1010–970 B.C. and King Solomon around 970–931 B.C. — was ...