At some point over the last few years, the interpretation of the story of David and Bathsheba became a matter of frequent contention on social media. Every few months, some tweet will revive ‘Bathsheba discourse’ and several days of heated argument will follow. At the heart of the dispute is the question of whether David raped Bathsheba. For some on both sides of the dispute, answers to this question have come to function as tribal or theological shibboleths, indicative of contrasting and often opposing stances regarding crises of sexual abuse and the (mis)handling of them within churches.
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