You all don't want to miss this one. In this live stream, Professor Baruch Halpern joins us to discuss his book David's Secret Demons, Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King and in this episode, he'll reveal the real historical King David and filter out the mythical aspects of the Biblical character to unveil the historical version by examining what the critics of King David had to say about him.
Having graduated Harvard (A.B., M.A., Ph.D) under the tutelage of Frank Moore Cross, George Ernest Wright, Thomas O. Lambdin and Thorkild Jacobsen, Baruch Halpern spent 16 years at York University in Toronto, moving to Penn State in 1992. His publications include 4 books, the most recent of which was David's Secret Demons, and a number of edited volumes and articles. While considered a historian, he insists on the import of language, archaeology and ethnology for the understanding not just of ancient texts, such as the Bible, but also of ancient living patterns and technologies.
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