- Posted December 10, 2025
The Middle East is a very curious place, but I hardly need to tell you that. For instance, everyone…
I bought a CD course on the Old Testament once, because I was considering teaching an online course myself. I hadn’t got very deep into the first disc before the teacher said flatly that King David did not actually exist. She was assuming that the stories about David were a Hebrew myth. I went no further. The teacher was revealing a radical position on the Old Testament that was of no value to me.Even from a non-believer’s point of view, David is one of most real characters in the Bible. He is larger than life, but that makes him