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wife and ends up with both the bounty
and the woman."
He also explores David as a voracious
lover enthralled by Bathsheba to the
point of arranging her husband's death,
a merciless warrior willing to use cruel-
ty and a troubled father whose son
Absalom rose up against him.
All of Kirsch's books have two goals
— sharing with the reader the most
recent developments in scholarship
and archaeology regarding Bible histo-
ry and making the information acces-
sible regardless of biblical knowledge.
Because of recent findings in archae-
ological excavation in northern Israel,
we have what most scholars regard as
definitive archaeological evidence of
the life of David, says Kirsch, who
researched Torah, Tanach, Talmud,
Midrash and a body of scholarship
that began in the late 19th century.
"That makes David the earliest fig-
ure in the Hebrew Bible for whom we
have corroborating evidence outside
the Bible.
"The life story of David as we find
it in the Bible also is the beginning of
literature. It's gripping because of its
passion, excess, violence, heartbreak,
politics, scandal and intrigue written
in the Book of Samuel.
"David is very caught up in the
Rabbi Norman Roman:
"I asked Rabbi Roman
to be narrator because
he has a wonderful
speaking voice, and I
thought he could bring
the members of the
Jewish community to the
church," says Kingins.
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despair to jubilation and
defeat to glory.
The changing tones of the
piece also were composed to
give the sense of King David,
a complex personality lauded
for leading the Jews and
denounced for committing
adultery with Bathsheba and
arranging for her husband's
death.
"There is an aria to lament
his weakness," explains
Kingins, who also has invited
three soloists and 20 musicians to
enhance the production.
Sandweiss, a chorale member for six
years, and Friedman, a chorale mem-
ber for one year, enjoy classical music
and decided to join the group after
learning that no auditions were
required. Kingins prepares cassettes so
singers who do not read music can
learn their parts.
"When we're performing Christian
pieces, I pay attention to the music
instead of the words," says Sandweiss,
who does part-time clerical work at
Wayne State University since retiring
from a secretarial position at the
school. "I think of the performance
experience as being in a play."
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Friedman, a grant writer for the
Detroit Institute of Arts, also considers
herself singing a role when a program
includes hymns about Jesus. Much of
what she knows about Christianity
came through studies of art history.
"The King David oratorio is complex,
challenging and beautiful," Friedman
says. "I'm glad to be doing -it." ❑
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The Woman Who Laughed at God: The
Untold Story of the Jewish People. It
focuses on Jewish traditions and
counter-traditions.
He currently is working on God
Against Gods, the story of how the world
was turned upside down in the fourth
century of the Common Era when poly-
theism was replaced by monotheism.
"Without any question, David rep-
resents the qualities of ferocity in bat-
tle, skill in politics, diplomacy, ambi-
tion and strength, but he did not rep-
resent piety or prayerfulness," says
Kirsch, who also explores theories of .
Bible authorship. "There's nothing in
the Bible that suggested he was a
teacher of ethics or morality.
"He had an ambition for power, and
that ambition drove him to do anything
and everything that would bring him to
power in a political sense and a personal
sense. He sought power as a king and
emperor and as a man in relationships
with other men and women and with
his own children and family." ❑
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p.m. Sunday, May 5, at Fort
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frenzy of religious observance, but he
doesn't spend much time thinking
about the moral quality of his life."
Kirsch, who expresses his ideas in
20th-century terms by comparing
David's life to those of John Kennedy
and Bill Clinton, has since written
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