4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Hebrew king who united the tribes of Israel, made Jerusalem his capital, and is traditionally credited with writing the Psalms — and whose relationship with God embodies the covenant's full complexity: chosen, beloved, deeply fallible (Bathsheba, Uriah), repentant, and restored.
Israelite king who built the First Temple in Jerusalem, whose wisdom became proverbial, who wrote (or was attributed with) Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs — whose reign represented the height of the united Israelite kingdom — and whose apostasy (foreign wives and foreign gods) is presented as the cause of the subsequent division.
Biblical king of Israel — son of David — who built the First Temple in Jerusalem, was famous for his wisdom (the judgment of Solomon), wrote (or is attributed with) Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon, and whose reign represented the peak of the united Israelite monarchy.
Tarquinius Superbus — Tarquin the Proud — the last Roman king, whose son Sextus Tarquin's rape of Lucretia led to the expulsion of the kings and the founding of the Roman Republic, as narrated by Livy and Shakespeare's poem The Rape of Lucrece.