Articles by Uriah Kim
Dr. Uriah Kim is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Hartford Seminary, with previous positions at the San Francisco Theological Seminary, the Pacific School of Religion, and as a visiting lecturer at the Graduate Theological Union. Dr. Kim’s latest publication, Decolonizing Josiah: Toward a Postcolonial Reading of Josiah explores new interpretative readings of biblical texts.
By Uriah Y. Kim
When preparing sermons on King David, preachers over the years have pored over every detail of David’s life and every trait of his character to expound lessons and examples for believers to learn and imitate. Lessons, examples, types, or symbols become even more apparent when King Saul is introduced as David’s foil. In this article I examine David and Saul in their “multi-people” environment so that we can appreciate some characteristics of their leadership that are useful in our multicultural context.
