The name of Joshua, the younger companion of Moses, is traditionally obscured by the name of the legendary leader of the Israeli people. The book of an admiring researcher tells about the battles and labors of Joshua, about his selfless, unshakable faith, about the true, unknown to many, scale of this personality. with Goliath, most likely, it was not! This is the conclusion that the American journalist J.M. Landay comes to, day after day, “reading” the life of one of the most famous kings in world history. But even without Goliath, David - a shepherd, a singer, a poet, a warrior, a criminal, a king - is so powerful and bright, magnificent and tragic, dishonest and generous, logical and unpredictable that what he accomplished is more than enough for a good dozen ordinary monarchs. It was he who united and created a nation that before him was an unsteady union of tribes; and in all the times of Israel, no one more than he possessed such a heightened and impeccable sense of historicity.