As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense ...

(This iconic underdog story is incredibly well portrayed—and I mean this in all seriousness—in the children’s Bible show ... about killing David in front of his son, Jonathan.

The latest book by Jonathan Friedmann ... is it necessary to show David as frankly unpleasant? The Bible tries to portray the innocent time of David, doubling down on his purity, virtuousness ...

Considering the way that the show has pulled from various Bible stories before ... put him at greater odds with David. But from what we've seen of Jonathan so far, and this is especially seen ...

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 ...

National Geographic explores notable biblical figures in our ongoing series People in the Bible ... David then married Saul’s daughter Michal and became a close friend of Saul’s son Jonathan ...

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 ...