On a fine spring evening in the ancient Near East, a king took a stroll on the roof of his palace. Surveying his capital city, he caught sight of a woman purifying herself in a ritual religious bath.

The Hebrew Bible perhaps considers no woman as beautiful or as involved in a sex scandal as King David's most famous wife, Bathsheba. The text goes out of its way to speak of Bathsheba's beauty, yet ...

In the Book of Samuel, three key voices say he’s the guilty one, not her. The story of David and Bathsheba has a lot of gaps. It's a brilliantly told narrative that requires us to draw conclusions ...

This crucial bit of biblical interpretation came in a tweet in early October from Rachael Denhollander, the first young athlete to accuse Gymnastics USA physician Larry Nassar of sexual assault and ...