Steven L. McKenzie. King David: A Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. viii, 232 pp.; Marti J. Steussy. David: Biblical Portraits of Power. Studies on the Personalities of the Old Testament. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. viii, 251 pp.; Baruch Halpern. David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001. xx, 492 pp.

Biography is not a genre usually associated with the academic study of the Bible, but it has found a small niche therein. The University of South Carolina publishes the series called “Personalities of the Old Testament,” in which Steussy's volume is the eighth, and Oxford University Press will...

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Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2002
In: AJS review
Year: 2002, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 111-117
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