As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense devotion between the warrior Jonathan and David, who later became king of ...

A fleeting flashback later reveals Jonathan with his former wife, who is presumed to have passed away.

Among the more passionate poems in the Hebrew Bible is one David is said to have pronounced for Jonathan and his father, Saul, the Israelite king. The three first meet when David, portrayed as a ...