Is Israel More Aggressive Than Israel's Neighbors?

David Frum: I wanted to test the difference this test claims about distinctiveness by isolating a group of biblical texts that would seem to be closest kin with ancient texts that are supportive of the king. So first looking at biblical royal texts and especially Psalms, he says. And what I did was to seek texts from it from its ancient world that are analogous to those royal biblical texts. They speak the king speaks his own voice in these royal descriptions from ancient Israel's neighbors,. He writes.