The Sword of Goliath
David in Heroic Literature
by Stanley Jerome Isser
196 pages· 2003· ISBN 9789004127371
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This book shifts the focus of biblical stories about David from historicity to popular culture, suggesting their origins in popular heroic literature of the later monarchy and Persian period and comparing them with Homeric and Arthurian heroic literature. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
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