More Wonderful Than the Love of Women: A Theology of Sacred Same-Sex Union in the Story of Jonathan

This book explores a love story long hidden in plain sight-the sacred bond between Jonathan and David as preserved in the Hebrew Scriptures. Their relationship, described with covenantal language, emotional depth, and physical intimacy, has long unsettled traditional interpretations. David's own words, "Your love to me was more wonderful than the love of women," echo across centuries with a vulnerability so profound it resists theological erasure.

Rather than a novel reinterpretation, this book offers a restoration-a return to what ancient readers may have recognized and what later generations have obscured through doctrine, translation, and cultural repression. It asks a bold but necessary question: what if Jonathan and David were not merely friends, but lovers-joined not only by loyalty and soul-bond, but by embodied, uncondemned love? What if their union is not an exception to be explained away, but a revelation of how divine covenant can appear in forms that transcend heteronormative assumptions?

Through careful exegesis, theological reflection, and historical insight, this work contends that their story is not a deviation from the sacred narrative, but part of it-blessed, canonized, and resonant with the Spirit's quiet affirmation. It offers a reverent challenge to those who claim "the Bible is clear," reminding us that truth often resides in ambiguity, in silence, and in the spaces between words.

This book is written for the queer believer who has searched Scripture and found only fragments; for the pastor who senses something deeper stirring in the text; and for the scholar willing to question the inherited lens. It is both an act of love and a call to honesty.

The love of Jonathan and David is not just a footnote in Israel's history. It is a testimony to the sacredness of queer covenant-and a revelation waiting to be received.