Dr. Creasy's Suggested Reading for The Story of King David (1 & 2 Samuel)
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The Art of Biblical Narrative
Robert Alter
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
Robert Alter
2 Samuel
(Word Biblical Commentary, Vol. 11).
A.A. Anderson
Narrative Art in the Bible (Understanding the Bible and Its World)
Shimon Bar-Efrat
Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative
Adele Berlin
David’s Truth: In Israel’s Imagination and Memory
Walter Brueggemann
Asking for Rhetoric: the Hebrew Bible’s Protean Interrogative
Kenneth M. Craig, Jr.
The Bible and the Psyche: Individuation Symbolism in the Old Testament
Edward F. Edinger
David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition
Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman
Reading Biblical Narrative
J. P. Fokkelman
Give Us a King!: Samuel, Saul and David
Everett Fox
The Story of King David: Genre and Interpretation
D. M. Gunn
David’s Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King
Baruch Halpern
King David in the Index of Christian Art
Colum Hourihane, ed.
Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode
Robert Kawashima
King David: the Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel
Jonathan Kirsch
1 Samuel (Word Biblical Commentary, Vol. 10)
Ralph W. Klein
David: Power, Lust and Betrayal in Biblical Times
Jerry M. Landay
King David with the Wise Woman of Tekoa: The Resonance of Tradition in Parabolic Narrative
Larry L. Lyke
King David: a Biography
Steven L. McKenzie
The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading
Meir Sternberg
David: Biblical Portraits of Power
Marti J. Steussy
David: the Divided Heart
David Wolpe