Did King David Exist? Was he a real person? Some scholars have said “No,” he was just a heroic Jewish myth. That’s the topic for the fifth video on the Age of the Kingdom Series YouTube Channel. You can watch it below.
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My fourth video on the YouTube Channel Age of the Kingdom Series is out. You can watch it below.
Here’s the second episode of my YouTube Channel. It is video from the book signing I had at “Words & Wine” at the Kona Stories bookstore in Keauhou, Hawaii.
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I’ve been thinking about starting a YouTube Channel for a while, and I finally pulled the trigger.
It’s https://youtube.com/@AgeOfTheKingdomSeries. It’s obviously about my biblical historical fiction series, Age of the Kingdom. The first episode is titled “Are Old Testament Stories History or Myth?” It’s basically an introduction to the channel, plus reading a little from Quest for a King, the first novel in the series.
Subsequent episodes will be video from my recent book signing titled “Reading from the Age of the Kingdom novels” and “5 Things You Should Know Before Reading the Bible.”
Future episodes will deal with my research in writing these books, problems with writing fiction based on 3,000-year-old stories and more.
I hope you’ll consider liking my videos and subscribing to my channel!
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I’m excited to let you know I’m going to be one of the featured local authors at Kona Stories bookstore at the monthly “Words & Wine” event on Tuesday, August 6, at 6 pm. I’ll be talking about and reading from “Quest for a King” and “Exile of the King.”
Kona Stories has been doing monthly, local-author book signings for many years. I did one in 2018, when I was able to talk about my “Backlash” series.
Kona Stories is located in Keauhou Shopping Center. If you are local on Hawaii Island, come by and say “hi”!
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I recently posted some background on my research for the books in the Age of the Kingdom series, but recently I’ve found a great new source that I wanted to talk about here.
In a piece of timing that was more than coincidence, in my opinion, I discovered the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archeology (AIBA). They are having an especially good deal on membership right now and I took advantage of it. Imagine my delight when the first issue of the organization’s publication Let The Stones Speak arrived and the topic was “David and Solomon’s Monumental Kingdom”!
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The story of David and Goliath is an iconic underdog story and “David and Goliath” is applied as a catch-phrase every time there is an underdog pitted against a gargantuan foe.
But how well do we know the story in the context of the stories on either side of it? Did you know that there’s a problem with the story that some skeptics have used to inspire doubt in the Bible?
It has to do with the question: Did King Saul know David BEFORE he killed Goliath?
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In my previous post, I began with generalities about my research for writing the Age of the Kingdom series. Now I’ll share a little of the source material I leaned on in my research.
Of course, my starting point is the Bible, and because I believe the Bible is a book of truths for life, I’m not going to stray too far from the events that are described there. I reread not just First and Second Samuel, but also the books that went before, Judges, Joshua and the Pentateuch. These books and their stories are inseparable from the events in Samuel and Kings, because it’s all one continuous narrative.
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I was not prepared for what I got when I gave Quest for a King to a company which offers feedback to authors (for a fee). I never talked to the reviewer; we only corresponded through email, but from the tone and content of the review and counsel I received, I’m pretty sure the reviewer was a female recently graduated from a decidedly secular university.
One thing that gave it away was that she said she wasn’t sure who to root for: Israel or the Philistines. In fact, she had to look up Philistines on Wikipedia! She didn’t know ANYTHING about them.
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