Each law, however, gets its own chapter: “Conceal Your Intentions,” “Always Say Less Than Necessary,” “Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy,” and so on. These laws boil down to being as ruthless, selfish, manipulative, and deceitful as possible.
This power game can be played well or poorly, and in these 48 laws culled from the history and wisdom of the world’s greatest power players are the rules that must be followed to win. We live today as courtiers once did in royal courts: we must appear civil while attempting to crush all those around us. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.Įveryone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia). Work in the conspiracy school of Biblical criticism. He should be credited for providing an imaginative McKenzie might well place David on the grassy knoll in Dallas in 1963. “a conquered people.” After 18 pages of notes there is a bibliography of over 340 works by other secular scholars not known forĮmpathy or familiarity with ancient Semitic religious texts. Positive Biblical depictions are deemed “unlikely.” To McKenzie, the ark is “a northern artifact” and the northern tribes were David is called a mafioso, a terrorist, and worse, while McKenzie’s estimations of what David stood to gain from such enormities. Much of the guilt behind these assertions is thoroughly circumstantial and based upon Villages, he “murdered Nabal and seized his wife, Abigail, and his property,” he was responsible for King Saul's death, and he The psalmist-king are these: he was a soldier, his failed coup earned Saul's enmity, his outlaws plundered and annihilated Judean Among the accusations McKenzie levies against Saga centuries later than previously supposed for political reasons of his own. On the contrary, after deemingĭavid historical enough to malign, McKenzie uses a “Deuteronomistic History” theory to date a hodgepodge writing of the David Of guilt, and ascent to the throne as simply the second bookend of the Judah epic of Genesis.
McKenzie refuses to consider David's sexual misconduct, unplanned self-incrimination, loss of sons, courageous admission Not already long-established as a clothesline of dirty laundry pinned up for moral lessons in personal responsibility and divine He gleefully points out David’s recorded and fictional stains, as if the Bible were Paul-after his vision on the road to Damascus. A strenuously speculative biography of a cherished Biblical figure, equated here to Saddam Hussein.īible scholar McKenzie (The Hebrew Bible Today, not reviewed) attacks King David with a vehemence worthy of St.
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