I fell in love with David’s story, if not always with the man himself, when I first read the Bible at age 21. Since then, I have gone back to his story many times to find my bearings, to figure out both how to live and how not to live, to the point where David’s story sometimes feels like a part of my own. Years later, I began to immerse myself in the extensive secondary literature on David and his times (a bibliography of works is included at the back of the book). These sec