Robert Pinsky
Part of the Jewish Encounter series,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 Davidâ€™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 Davidâ€™s life as well as on the later commentaries and the Psalmsâ€”traditionally considered to be Davidâ€™s own wordsâ€”Pinsky teases apart the many strands of Davidâ€™s story and reweaves them into a glorious narrative.,Under the clarifying and captivating light of Pinskyâ€™s erudition and imagination, and his mastery of image and expression, King Davidâ€”both the man and the idea of the manâ€”is brought brilliantly to life.
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The Life of David