Editing David (section)

===Literature===
[[File:081.David Mourns the Death of Absalom.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|David mourning the death of Absalom, by Gustave Doré]]
Literary works about David include:
*'''1517''' ''[[Davidiad|The Davidiad]]'' is a [[Neo-Latin]] [[epic poem]] by the [[Croatian language|Croatian]] [[national poet]], [[Catholic priest]], and [[Renaissance humanism|Renaissance humanist]] [[Marko Marulić]] (whose name is sometimes [[Latinisation of names|Latinized]] as "Marcus Marulus"). In addition to the small portions that attempt to recall the epics of [[Homer]], ''The Davidiad'' is heavily modeled upon [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]''. This is so much the case that Marulić's contemporaries called him the "Christian Virgil from [[Split, Croatia|Split]]." The [[philologist]] [[Miroslav Marcovich]] also detects, "the influence of [[Ovid]], [[Lucan]], and [[Statius]]" in the work.
*'''1681–82''' [[John Dryden|Dryden]]'s long poem ''[[Absalom and Achitophel]]'' is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of [[Absalom]] against King David as the basis for his satire of the contemporary political situation, including events such as the [[Monmouth Rebellion]] (1685), the [[Popish Plot]] (1678) and the [[Exclusion Crisis]].
*'''1893''' [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] may have used the story of David and Bathsheba as a foundation for the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story ''[[The Adventure of the Crooked Man]]''. Holmes mentions "the small affair of Uriah and Bathsheba" at the end of the story.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C2IpCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT291|title=The Sherlock Holmes Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained |date= 1 October 2015|publisher=Dorling Kindersley |access-date= 12 February 2018|via= Google Books |isbn=978-0-24124833-1|archive-date=11 October 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201011131826/https://books.google.com/books?id=C2IpCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT291 |url-status= live}}</ref>
*'''1928''' [[Elmer Davis]]'s novel ''Giant Killer'' retells and embellishes the biblical story of David, casting David as primarily a poet who managed always to find others to do the "dirty work" of heroism and kingship. In the novel, [[Elhanan son of Jair|Elhanan]] in fact killed Goliath but David claimed the credit; and [[Joab]], David's cousin and general, took it upon himself to make many of the difficult decisions of war and statecraft when David vacillated or wrote poetry instead.
*'''1936''' [[William Faulkner]]'s ''[[Absalom, Absalom!]]'' refers to the story of Absalom, David's son; his rebellion against his father and his death at the hands of David's general, Joab. In addition it parallels Absalom's vengeance for the rape of his sister [[Tamar (daughter of David)|Tamar]] by his half-brother, [[Amnon]].
*'''1946''' [[Gladys Schmitt]]'s novel ''David the King'' was a richly embellished biography of David's entire life. The book took a risk, especially for its time, in portraying David's relationship with Jonathan as overtly [[homoerotic]], but was ultimately panned by critics as a bland rendition of the title character.
*'''1966''' [[Juan Bosch (politician)|Juan Bosch]], a Dominican political leader and writer, wrote ''David: Biography of a King'', as a realistic portrayal of David's life and political career.
*'''1970''' [[Dan Jacobson]]'s ''The Rape of Tamar'' is an imagined account, by one of David's courtiers Yonadab, of the rape of Tamar by Amnon.
*'''1972''' [[Stefan Heym]] wrote ''The King David Report'' in which the historian [[Ethan (biblical figure)|Ethan]] compiles upon King Solomon's orders "a true and authoritative report on the life of David, Son of Jesse"—the East German writer's wry depiction of a court historian writing an "authorized" history, many incidents clearly intended as satirical references to the writer's own time.
*'''1974''' In [[Thomas Burnett Swann]]'s biblical fantasy novel ''How are the Mighty Fallen'', David and Jonathan are explicitly stated to be lovers. Moreover, Jonathan is a member of a winged semi-human race (possibly [[nephilim]]), one of several such races coexisting with humanity but often persecuted by it.
*'''1980''' [[Malachi Martin]]'s [[Faction (literature)|factional]] novel ''King of Kings: A Novel of the Life of David'' relates the life of David, Adonai's champion in his battle with the Philistine deity Dagon.
*'''1984''' [[Joseph Heller]] wrote a novel based on David called ''[[God Knows (novel)|God Knows]]'', published by Simon & Schuster. Told from the perspective of an aging David, the humanity—rather than the heroism—of various biblical characters is emphasized. The portrayal of David as a man of flaws such as greed, lust, selfishness, and his alienation from God, the falling apart of his family is a distinctly 20th-century interpretation of the events told in the Bible.
*'''1993''' [[Madeleine L'Engle]]'s novel ''Certain Women'' explores family, the Christian faith, and the nature of God through the story of King David's family and an analogous modern family's saga.
*'''1995''' [[Allan Massie]] wrote ''King David'', a novel about David's career that portrays the king's relationship to Jonathan as sexual.<ref>{{cite book|last1=O'Kane|first1=Martin|editor1-last=Exum|editor1-first=Jo Cheryl|title=Beyond the Biblical Horizon: The Bible and the Arts|page=[https://archive.org/details/beyondbiblicalho00jche/page/86 86]|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AUd28eEXGfoC&q=massie+jonathan&pg=PA86|access-date=15 August 2015|chapter=The Biblical King David and His Artistic and Literary Afterlives|isbn=978-9004112902|year=1999|publisher=BRILL |url=https://archive.org/details/beyondbiblicalho00jche/page/86}}</ref>
*'''2015''' [[Geraldine Brooks (writer)|Geraldine Brooks]] wrote a novel about David, ''[[The Secret Chord]]'', told from the point of view of the prophet [[Nathan (prophet)|Nathan]].<ref name=Gilbert>{{cite news|last1=Gilbert|first1=Matthew|title='The Secret Chord' by Geraldine Brooks|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/10/03/book-review-the-secret-chord-geraldine-brooks/5XqipZWUj40EQVoerjtQmO/story.html|access-date=4 October 2015|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|date=3 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005034331/https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/10/03/book-review-the-secret-chord-geraldine-brooks/5XqipZWUj40EQVoerjtQmO/story.html|archive-date=5 October 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Hoffman|first1=Alice|title=Geraldine Brooks reimagines King David's life in 'The Secret Chord'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/geraldine-brooks-reimagines-king-davids-life-in-the-secret-chord/2015/09/28/e0a4a69c-62de-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html|access-date=29 March 2018|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=28 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330075856/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/geraldine-brooks-reimagines-king-davids-life-in-the-secret-chord/2015/09/28/e0a4a69c-62de-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html|archive-date=30 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
*'''2020''' [[Michael Arditti]] wrote ''The Anointed'', a novel about David told by three of his wives, Michal, Abigail and Bathsheba.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-04-14 |title=Book review: The Anointed, by Michael Arditti |url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/book-review-anointed-michael-arditti-2538664 |access-date=2022-09-01 |website=www.scotsman.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-05-08 |title=The Anointed by Michael Arditti — a David less divine |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/34eb0bda-8489-11ea-b6e9-a94cffd1d9bf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/34eb0bda-8489-11ea-b6e9-a94cffd1d9bf |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=2022-09-01}}</ref>