Jared Garcia
Jared Garcia is a global worker with Reaching & Teaching International Ministries, serving as academic director of Pines City Baptist School of Theology and a pastor of Pines City Baptist Church in Baguio City, Philippines.
Articles
Was David Overreacting? Analyzing 1 Samuel 25 in Light of the Ancient Hospitality Code
by Jared GarciaWas Nabal’s refusal to give food for six hundred people such a terrible wrong that David in 1 Samuel 25 would have been justified in seeking vengeance by killing Nabal’s entire household? Did David simply overreact? This paper demonstrates that an acquaintance with the hospitality code of the Ancient Near East aids in the understanding of the events in 1 Samuel 25...