Dr. Bill Creasy

In "King David, the Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel," Jonathan Kirsch observes:

“At the heart of the Book of Samuel, where the story of David is first told, we find a work of genius that anticipates the romantic lyricism and tragic grandeur of Shakespeare, the political wile of Machiavelli, and the modern psychological insight of Freud. And, just as much as Shakespeare or Machiavelli or Freud, the frank depiction of David in the pages of the Bible has defined what it means to be a human being: King David is ‘a symbol of the complexity and ambiguity of human experience itself.”

No two-dimensional pious character, David played exquisitely, he fought heroically, and he loved titanically. David could be cheerful at one moment, despondent at the next; selfish, yet generous; sinning, yet repenting. David is quite simply the most human character in all of Scripture. As a work of literature, the David story is one of the most complex and subtle narratives in Scripture, and it is among the greatest stories in all of world literature.

In this talk, Dr. Bill Creasy introduces the audience to the remarkable story of King David.