David

Worth knowing

• The second king of Israel, remembered as much for the harp as for the sling. The largest single group of psalms in the Psalter carries the heading "of David".
• The Psalms were not written by one man. The game credits this book to "the psalmists of Israel" — David is the name at the head of the tradition, not the author of every line in it.
• P. Oxy 5101, the fragment you can carry, is a scrap of the Greek Psalms found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. It is among the oldest surviving witnesses to the Psalter in Greek.

The book

P. Oxy 5101Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 5101 (Septuagint Psalms, papyrus roll)BibleExperience

Who else was alive

David against everyone else in the game.