Davidic shipping
I'm impressed this show is drawing on the theory that the two Ahinoams are the same.
But I'm disappointed they aren't alluding to David and Johnathon yet.
"I knew it, I'm surrounded by @$$Holes"
It's true that one of David's wives was named Ahinoam--the same name that Saul's wife had. However, David married his Ahinoam while Saul was still alive. I don't think it was the same woman who married both Saul and David, but it was clever for the writers to find that hook.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
There was also Samuel's statement that God would give David Saul's wives.
"I knew it, I'm surrounded by @$$Holes"
While taking the king's wives is a symbol of having removed him from power in antiquity (it's what Absalom would later do with David's wives and concubines), in this case David would marry Michal. According to Jewish Biblical law, if you are intimate with a mother, you can't be intimate with her daughter and vice versa. This version contradicts the world in which it's supposed to have happened.
Personally, I think it's more plausible that Jonathan was the love of David's life. And that this was very possible because it wasn't frowned upon as we mistakenly tend to think because we misunderstand some biblical prohibitions regarding specific same-sex issues as if they pertain to all same-sex relationships.
Since when do people obey all the rules?
shareAlso, the show took care of that little hurdle by claiming that Michal was the child of a concubine, and not the Queen.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Ah, yes. Forgot about that bit of wonderfulness that allows them to employ people with different skin color playing one family, even though there's no mention for this anywhere in the Bible. I guess my brain can only take one complete deviation from the source material at a time. And this show keeps throwing so many of them at me.
shareNo, you're right, people don't obey all the rules but they tend to obey internalized ones. And the way these people are presented in the Bible, they may err, but they do believe in God and his rules. At least at this point in time, later the House of David will be cursed and things will change with some of the players involved.
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