Bible Review

See Julian Brodd, “Julian the Apostate and His Plan to Rebuild the Temple,” BR 11:05.

For more on how Joab entered the city, see Hershel Shanks, “I Climbed Warren’s Shaft (But Joab Never Did),” BAR 25:06.

On the idea that David “protests too much,” see Steven L. McKenzie, King David: A Biography (Oxford, 2000); reviewed by Hershel Shanks in “King David: Serial Murderer,” BR 16:06.

Similar incidents later happen in David’s household (2 Samuel 16:21–22; 1 Kings 2:13–25). See Ken Stone, “Sexual Power and Political Prestige,” BR 10:04.

Rather than put the Amalekites and their livestock to the sword as the Lord commands, Saul spares the best livestock for sacrifice. So Samuel tells him the Lord has torn the kingdom from him and given it to a neighbor, one better than he (1 Samuel 15:28).

The Book of Chronicles, stressing their codependent military ties, speaks in glowing terms of both David and Joab.

Mannerism was a period of artistic transition, from the High Renaissance to the Baroque style, characterized by the elongation of forms, elegant and detailed drapery and a vibrant color palette.

For a full story of Jesus and James and their complicated family tree, see Hershel Shanks and Ben Witherington III, The Brother of Jesus (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003), especially chapters 3 and 13.

See Michael Homan, “The Divine Warrior in His Tent,” BR 16:06.