David: Biblical Portraits of Power / The Heart of an Executive

From: Interpretation | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

David: Biblical Portraits of Power by Marti 1. Steussy University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, 1999. 251 pp@ $34.95 (cloth). ISBN 1-57003-250-5.

The Heart of an Executive by Richard D. Phillips Doubleday, New York, 1999. 271 pp. $21.00. ISBN 0385-49232-4.

EVEN THOUGH BOTH BOOKS focus on King David's leadership ability, it is difficult to imagine two more different treatments. For Steussy, a seminary professor with a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible, David is a complex "nexus of power" (p. 3). For Phillips, the CEO of a nonprofit radio and publishing organization who holds both an MBA and an ...

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