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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| David in Writing | |
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| The Surprising David | |
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| David's History in the Books of Samuel | |
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| The Stage Set | |
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| Introducing David | |
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| Saul's Death | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| Building the Israelite State | |
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| David and Bathsheba | |
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| Absalom's Coup | |
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| Penetrating the Textual Veil | |
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| Dating 2 Samuel | |
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| King David, Serial Killer | |
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| The Portrayal of David and the Date of 2 Samuel | |
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| Ten Little Indians | |
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| Nabal | |
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| Saul and His Sons at Gilboa | |
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| Ishbaal | |
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| Abner | |
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| Saul's Other Descendants | |
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| Amnon | |
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| Absalom | |
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| Amasa | |
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| Uriah | |
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| The Apology and the Absalom Revolt | |
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| Defining David's Empire | |
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| How to Take Up What Kings Set Down | |
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| History, the Public Form of Memory | |
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| The Image of the King in Royal Propaganda | |
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| The Tiglath-Pileser Principle | |
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| Reading David's Conquests | |
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| 2 Samuel 8 | |
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| Settling the Philistine Question: 2 Samuel 8:1 | |
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| The Conquest of Moab: 2 Samuel 8:2 | |
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| David and Hadadezer: 2 Samuel 8:3 and the History of the Ninth Century | |
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| David at the River | |
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| The Northern States | |
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| Hadadezer, Ruler of the House of Rehob? | |
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| Hazael, King of Amqi? | |
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| Hazael, Invader of Amqi? | |
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| Rehob and Zobah | |
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| Zobah and David's Empire | |
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| The Name of Hadadezer | |
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| David in the North and in Transjordan: 2 Samuel 8:3-11 | |
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| Understanding 2 Samuel 8:3-11 | |
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| David's Stela | |
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| The Date and Reception of 2 Samuel 8 | |
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| David's Display? | |
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| 2 Samuel 8 and the Historicity of the Davidic State | |
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| Propaganda and Its Implications for Historical Reality | |
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| The Claims of Samuel and the Date of the Text | |
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| A Historical Overture to David's Career | |
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| The Relative Chronology of David's Reign | |
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| Ages of Kings at Death | |
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| Geography of the Davidic State | |
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| The External Borders of David's State | |
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| The Magnification of David's State | |
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| The Early Magnification | |
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| Theories of the Israelite Settlement | |
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| The Magnifying Lens | |
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| Is Jonah Liable? | |
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| Dating the Extension of David's State | |
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| A Life of David | |
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| David's Youth | |
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| The Sources | |
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| The Name of David | |
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| David's Daddy | |
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| David's Antecedents | |
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| Location in Bethlehem | |
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| Chart of the A and B Sources in 1 Samuel 8-2 Samuel 1 | |
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| David and Saul | |
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| In Saul's Court | |
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| The Wilderness Years | |
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| A Foreign Affair | |
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| On the Hot Seat in Hebron | |
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| From Gath to Hebron | |
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| Kingship in a Nutshell | |
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| David across the River | |
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| David's Philistine Pedigree | |
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| Hebron and the Gibeonites | |
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| The Civil War | |
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| The Cuckoo in the Nest | |
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| Rising over Zion | |
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| The Taking of Jerusalem | |
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| The Philistine Wars | |
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| Bringing Home the Ark | |
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| Celebrating a Homecoming | |
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| The Dynastic Oracle | |
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| The Saulide Hostage | |
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| David's Wars | |
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| The Ammonite War | |
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| Edom | |
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| Other Regions | |
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| Absalom's Gift | |
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| The Aftermath of Absalom's Revolt | |
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| The Aftermath: David's Policies for Expansion | |
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| After Absalom: David and Israel | |
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| Solomon's Succession | |
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| Solomon's Politics | |
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| Appendix | |
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| The Archaeology of David's Reign | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Megiddo, Gezer, and Hazor | |
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| Downdating the Solomonic Layers | |
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| Ramses III and the Sea Peoples | |
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| The Dating of the Tenth-Century Strata: Positive Evidence | |
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| Afterword | |
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| General Index of Select Topics | |
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| Index of Scholars Cited | |