This month's topic (David) features the work of American-Israeli artist Schwebel, who has produced a monumental series of paintings and etchings on material in the books of Samuel and Kings. Examples of Schwebel's paintings of David are accompanied by biblical texts translated by Prof. Everett Fox. Fox, who holds the Glick Chair in Judaic and Biblical Studies at Clark University, is the translator of The Schocken Bible. The most recently published volume, Give us a King! Samuel, Saul, and David (Schocken Books, 1999), incorporates Schwebel's art.

Does David still play before you on the golden harp?
Poet Moshe Dor on the contemporary relevance of the Bible
David C. Jacobson

Pebbles and harp strings
Two contemporary poems about David
Josephine Miles and Thomas W. Shapcott