David and Jonathan were not in it for the power, but because they were made after God’s own heart. Instead of competing with one another, they enacted his will among the people of Israel.

An illustration of David and Jonathan from 'Sunday at Home – A Family Magazine for Sabbath reading, 1883,' published by the Religious Tract Society in London. whitemay/DigitalVision Vectors via ...

David and Jonathan So it is perhaps not entirely surprising that the two greatest love stories in the Bible are not of husband and wife, nor even of man and woman, but of man and man, and woman ...

If you Google the question, “Were David and Jonathan in the Bible gay?” you will get hundreds of hits. Some sites, drawing on the scholarship of, among others, John Boswell, an historian of ...

David and Jonathan both had wives and children, and we are to believe that the love they clearly shared was homosocial rather than homosexual. In the Book of Ruth, Naomi is married to Elimelech.

Written by Adrian Buckle and Trevor Zahra and directed by Tyrone Grima, Id-Dnub tal-Maghzulin reimagines one of the Bible’s most compelling narratives. A new Maltese-language play written by ...