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In this, they follow the lead of the great German biblical scholar Martin Noth. See his “The Deuteronomistic History,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series (JSOT Sup) 15 (Sheffield: JSOT, 1943).

See Gary Rendsburg, “Reading David in Genesis,” and Ronald S. Hendel, “David Loves Bathsheba,” BR 17:01; and Hershel Shanks, “King David, Serial Murderer,” BR 16:06.

Thomas L. Thompson, The Early History of the Israelite People: From the Written and Archaeological Sources (Leiden: Brill, 1992); Philip R. Davies, In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’ (Sheffield: JSOT, 1992); Niels Peter Lemche, Ancient Israel: A New History of Israelite Society, trans. Fred Cryer (Sheffield: JSOT, 1988).

See Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.3.62; Ad Herennium 4.39.51. The authors of the so-called Progymnasmata (rhetorical exercises for schoolboys) also commended the vividness, clarity and style of both the accomplished speaker and writer. According to the first-century C.E. author Aelius Theon, the “desirable qualities of a description are these; above all, clarity and vividness, in order that what is being reported is virtually visible” (Progymnasmata 7.53–55).

Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend, trans. William Granger Ryan, 2 vols. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993), vol. 2, p. 251.

Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah 3.6.

Augustine, The Trinity 8.5.7.

Dorothee Klein, St. Lukas als Maler der Maria: Ikonographie der Lukas-Madonna (Berlin: Oskar Schloss, 1933).

Craig Harbison, The Mirror of the Artist (New York: Abrams, 1995), p. 10.

For more on the traditions of Luke as painter, see Eunice Howe, “Luke, St.,” in Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner, 34 vols. (New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 1996), vol. 19, pp. 787–789.