King David: the Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
“—JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, THE LEVITE OF EPHRAIM Two women named Tamar figure crucially in the life of King David. The first Tamar was a Canaanite who disguised herself as a harlot in order to seduce her father-in-law, Judah, so that she might conceive a child.* She was a remarkable woman, beautiful and beguiling, assertive and brave. Despite her sins of incest and fornication and prostitution, the Bible pronounces her a righteous woman. David was a distant but direct descendant of Tamar and Jud...ah, founder of the tribe of which he was king, and her passionate blood ran in his veins.
At first glance the linkage between Tamar and David may seem odd and off-putting to the devout reader of the Bible. Is it not ironic that David—God's anointed, king of all Israel, and progenitor of the Messiah—traced his ancestry back to the bastard son of a foreign woman who played the harlot with her own father-in-law? By now, however, we know enough about David to realize that his bloodlines are perfectly appropriate.MoreLess
At first glance the linkage between Tamar and David may seem odd and off-putting to the devout reader of the Bible. Is it not ironic that David—God's anointed, king of all Israel, and progenitor of the Messiah—traced his ancestry back to the bastard son of a foreign woman who played the harlot with her own father-in-law? By now, however, we know enough about David to realize that his bloodlines are perfectly appropriate.MoreLess
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