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Contents 1 i don't get it 2 David in Rabbinical Literature 3 Is Bath-Sheba's name the origin of the word "Bath"? 4 Removed sentance 5 Bathsheba's ethnicity 6 Change picture 7 paintings 8 Bath-Sheba or Bath-Shua? 9 Why are all the pictures of her nude?

[edit] i don't get it

"Hearing that her husband was with the army, David temporarily abducted her; but fearing the consequence of his act, he summoned Uriah from the camp as the bearer of a message. He hoped to hide the consequence of his own complicity in Bath-sheba's condition, and dismissed Uriah to his wife with a portion from the royal table. But Uriah, being probably unwilling to violate the ancient Israelitish rule applying to warriors in active service (see Robertson Smith, "Religion of the Semites," pp. 455, 488), preferred to remain with the palace troops."

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. I don't get what David fears the "consequence of his act" is, or whether he forcibly raped Bath-sheba, or what Bath-sheba's "condition" is (did she get pregnant, or what?), or what the "ancient Israelitish rule applying to warriors in active service" is. Can someone who knows something about this explain it better? 216.195.164.111 19:04, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Happened, that Bathseba got pregnant and David gave Uriah some days off that he would visit his wife and sleep with her to give (later) some explanation for the pregnancy. But Uriah followed the custom, that during war time men do not sleep with their wives (or as long as his fellow soldiers were putting their lives on the line). --Aethralis 13:09, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

IMO this article presupposes both a particular POV and a high level of knowledge. The text is quite obscure, as illustrated above, without this assumed knowledge.

The POV is more difficult to deal with. Should the tense be present, as it is, which makes it read like a movie script? Or should it be past, like the current Aaron article, which would make it read like history? Either way, we are expressing a POV. Andrewa 16:31, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David in Rabbinical Literature

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For further details see David in Rabbinical Literature.

This has been there since at least February, and looks like it should be a wikilink, but there's still no David in Rabbinical Literature article (nor can I see any evidence one has been merged and/or deleted). Andrewa 16:17, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is Bath-Sheba's name the origin of the word "Bath"?

If so, that should really be in the article.

This is definitely not the case. "Bath" in english coms from old-english bæð "immersing in water". "Bath" in Bathsheba comes from hebrew בת - daughter. --Aethralis 11:55, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed sentance

I removed the sentance that says that Bat-shua and Batsheba were the same. Bat-shua in 1 Chronicles is Judah's wife.mikey 20:36, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bathsheba's ethnicity

It has been confirmed that Bathsheba was a descendant of Noah's son Ham (who uhm.. did not produce people of lily-white complexion). When I view Bathsheba's article, the picture shows a lily-white female?? I think it best to remove the picture. It's beyond misleading. Panda —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.159.230.175 (talk) 22:31, 17 February 2007 (UTC).

Art, and especially religious art, is way above skin color criteria. Disdero 16:33, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Disdero, you may want to consider what a narrow-minded 12 year-old will assume when they look at that picture..

Dear Anonymous, I assume few "narrow-minded 12 year-olds" analyse Bathsheba skin on Wikipedia, or elsewhere. Please propose any other picture of your choice, on the Talk page, before destroying regular wikipedians contributions. I would prefer we do not enter in a cycle of rv & undos. Cheers Disdero 22:02, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I assume few "narrow-minded 12 year-olds" analyse Bathsheba skin on Wikipedia, or elsewhere ..precisely, they'd just erroneously assume she was white. I will try to find a more fitting picture that is free to display on the article. And were all the pictures chosen by these 'regular' contributors discussed 'on the talk page' before they were embedded into the article?

[edit] Change picture

It seemed to me that we had Bathseba bathing well covered. I thought I would add a depiction of another phase of her life, tending to an aging David. No offense intended to those that preferred the other painting.--Nowa 02:18, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] paintings

As long as you're showing various artistic renderings of Bathsheba, why not use Rembrandt's? CharlesTheBold 02:32, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bath-Sheba or Bath-Shua?

Is there a connection between the story of 'the daughter of Sheba' who becomes David's wife, and the 'Queen of Sheba' who visits their son Solomon after David had died and Solomon had taken the throne? Sheba was a territory in southern Arabia or Ethiopia/Eritrea (suggesting that both Bath-Sheba and the 'The Queen of Sheba' were black). It seems too much of a coincidence.86.3.135.243 (talk) 17:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why are all the pictures of her nude?

Was she the first pornstar? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Finest1 (talk • contribs) 23:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Because that is how artists imagined her.--76.176.130.141 (talk) 21:38, 14 February 2008 (UTC)