Pretend. Would not listen. Send in. Send out. Take hold. Force. Bolt the door. Tear. Cry aloud. Keep quiet. Speak neither good nor bad. Remain. Hate. These are the verbs in the story of the rape of ...

Amnon and Absalom are brothers, both sons of King David, possible future adversaries in the succession to the throne of Israel. Tamar is a sister of Absalom and half-sister of Amnon. They appear in ...

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Most people, when they read 2 Samuel 13, are horrified by its tragic contents. Amnon, the firstborn son of King David, falls in love with his half-sister Tamar. He devises a plan to get her alone, ...

Telling the uncomfortable story of “desolate” Tamar positions us to show a kind of compassion King David didn’t. For the past year, I’ve been teaching the Book of Samuel to a group of women at my ...

“Infatuation is a short-term fixation, but love is enduring.” — Dr Tarra Bates-Duford., psychologist, specializing in familial relationships, “Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar that he ...

A Yiddish sermon about sin given by the great Talmudist and leading theologian Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik z”l was recently posted on YouTube, accompanied by English subtitles. In the talk, which ...