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The life of David / Robert Pinsky.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection BS580.D3 P56 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinsky, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- David, King of Israel.
- David.
- Bible. Old Testament--Biography.
- Bible.
- Israel--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Israel.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 209 p. ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nextbook : Schocken, 2005.
- Summary:
- Poet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David's life: his triumphs and his failures, his charm and his cruelty, his divine destiny and his human humiliations. Drawing on the biblical chronicle of David's life as well as on the later commentaries and the Psalms--traditionally considered to be David's own words--Pinsky teases apart the many strands of David's story and reweaves them into a single narrative.
- Contents:
- David
- Cousin Goliath
- The king's other daughter
- Five golden tumors and five golden rats
- Smoke from his nostrils, devouring fire from his mouth
- Moabitage and Mephibosheth
- Thou art the man
- Sons of David
- Would God I had died for thee
- The enumerations
- I will make thine enemies thy footstool
- David in paradise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0805242031
- OCLC:
- 58536147
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