At first blush, Gafney’s overall thesis is perhaps trivial and one that few would dispute in light of David’s well-known affair with Bathsheba. To support her argument, she painstakingly enumerates all the wives of King David found in the biblical books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. In the chapter, Gafney’s overall goal is to paint a picture of David as a womanizer, a man who engages in numerous sexual affairs or casual marriages with women. I conclude with some personal and critical reflections in response. In this précis, I will briefly characterize the strategy of Gafney’s overall argument and then summarize one of her interpretations as an example of her argument style. In “Dominated by David,” Wilda Gafney argues that the biblical David was a womanizer.
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