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Friendship, a covenant, romance – no matter what you call it, David’s love for Jonathan is one of the Bible’s most beautiful

  • Written by Jacob F. Love, Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Tennessee
Friendship, a covenant, romance – no matter what you call it, David’s love for Jonathan is one of the Bible’s most beautifulAn illustration of David and Jonathan from 'Sunday at Home – A Family Magazine for Sabbath reading, 1883,' published by the Religious Tract Society in London.whitemay/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

For the idea of love, biblical Hebrew has precious few synonyms. Yet the Hebrew of the Bible can communicate a rich sensation of love: the...

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