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The research assumption is that the story of David and the Gibeonites does not praise David's behavior and actions in the story, as many scholars think, but rather criticizes him. The study's method is one of literary analysis according to Meir Weiss' method and Moshe Garsiel's …

This dissertation demonstrates that the narrators of Genesis 34 and 2 Samuel 13 cast the sexual violations of Dinah and Tamar similarly. Chapter 1 attends to the words that link the two narratives. It also examines other Hebrew Bible (HB) passages containing inah, nevalah, and h…

Often, interpreters of the Deuteronomistic History (DH) overlook its complex use of disability imagery. They frequently understand this imagery as having only rather transparent meanings. Through a close study of Mephibosheth's character in the David Story (1 Sam 16–1 Kgs 2), th…

Modern biblical scholars have increasingly characterized the story of David's rise to kingship as stemming from an originally independent and unified source that was composed in the Jerusalemite royal court for the purpose of legitimizing David's usurpation of Saul's throne. Sch…