423 David, Bathsheba, Uriah, Joab and Nathan occurred to him in the cycle of the sins and its aftermath . The author of Chronicles knew that this story cycle does not glorify David or his dynasty . Therefore, he totally omits it as well as other occurrences in David’s life that are not respectful to his admired king . and the early traditional ) חז״ל ( In the diversified world of the Sages commentators, there are discrete approaches on how to deal with the main participants in those events, most of them focused on David . We will refer to the representative ones . The most famous approach is included in the Babylonian Talmud Tractate Shabbath 56, 1 ) . It regards David’s behavior as minor ( transgressions . It opens with a declaration : “Whoever says David committed sins—is totally wrong ! ” According to this view, Bathsheba was at that time a divorcee . Since all of David’s soldiers wrote a con - ditional bill of divorce to their wives before going out to war . If a soldier does not r...
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