The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Zawanowska, Marzena; Wilk, Mateusz;

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One of the most central figures in monotheistic traditions is King David. The volume takes a new, critical look at the process of biblical creation and exegetical transformation of this character in the intertwined words of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

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King David if one of the most central figures in all of the major monotheistic traditions. He generally connotes the heroic past of the (more imagined than real) ancient Israelite empire and is associated with messianic hopes for the future. Nevertheless, his richly ambivalent and fascinating literary portrayal in the Hebrew Bible is one of the most complex of all biblical characters.

This volume aims at taking a new, critical look at the process of biblical creation and subsequent exegetical transformation of the character of David and his attributed literary composition (the Psalms), with particular emphasis put on the multilateral fertilization and cross-cultural interchanges among Jews, Christians and Muslims.

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Tartalomjegyzék:

List of Illustrations


Transliteration


Notes on Contributors





The Variety of Davids in Monotheistic Traditions?


 An Introduction


 Marzena Zawanowska





1 David in History and in the Hebrew Bible


 Łukasz Niesiołowski
-Span?

part 1: The Images of David in Medieval Jewish, Muslim and Christian Sources

2 David the Pious Musician in Midrashic Literature and Medieval Muslim Sources


 Sivan Nir





3 The Weeping King of Muslim Pietistic Tradition?


 David in the Kit?b al
-wara? of ?Abd al
-Malik b. ?ab?b (d. 238/853) and in Earlier Islamic Sources

 Mateusz Wilk





4 David and the Temple of Solomon according to the Arabic Commentaries of Yefet ben ?Eli the Karaite on the Books of Kings and Chronicles


 Yair Zoran





5 David as Warrior, Leader, and Poet in Medieval Hebrew Poetry of al
-Andalus?


 Shmuel ha
-Nagid?s Self
-Portrait as ?The David of His Age?

 Barbara Gryczan





6 David in Judah Halevi?s Book of the Kuzari?


 A Reconciliation Project

 Marzena Zawanowska





7 Saint Louis as a New David and Paris as a New Jerusalem in Medieval French Hagiographic Literature


 Jerzy Pysiak





8 Male Friendship in Medieval Latin Literature?


 David and Jonathan


 Ruth Mazo Karras

part 2: The Psalter of David in Monotheistic Traditions

9 David the Prophet in Sa?adya Gaon?s Commentary on Psalms and Its Syriac and Karaite Contexts


 Arye Zoref





10 Psalms to Reason, Psalms to Heal?


 The Scriptures in Early R?m Orthodox Treatises


 Miriam Lindgren Hjälm





11 Images of David in Several Muslim Rewritings of the Psalms


 David R. Vishanoff





12 David?s Psalter in Christian Arabic Dress?


 ?Abd All?h ibn al
-Fa?l?s Translation and Commentary


 Juan Pedro Monferrer
-Sala





13 King David and the Psalter in Ethiopian Cultural Setting


 Witold Witakowski





14 David?s Psalms in Eastern European Karaite Literature


 Zsuzsanna Olach

part 3: David and His Women: The Cross
-Religious Reception Exegesis of the Bathsheba Narrative

15 The Four Wives of David and the Four Women of Odysseus?


 A Comparative Approach


 Daniel Bodi





16 Josephus? Retelling of the David and Bathsheba Narrative


 Michael Avioz





17 Our Mother, Our Queen?


 Bathsheba through Early Jewish, Christian and Muslim Eyes


 Diana Lipton and Meira Polliack





18 God?s Master Plan?


 The Story of David and Bathsheba in Some Early Syriac Commentaries


 Orly Mizrachi





19 Ibn Ka??r?s (d. 774/1373) Treatment of the David and Uriah Narrative?


 The Issue of Isr???liyy?t and the Syrian School of Exegesis


 Marianna Klar

part 4: Reinventing David in Early Modern and Modern Religious Thought and Literature

20 ?David Was Secretly a Woman??


 King David as a Messianic Topos in the Teaching of Jacob Frank


 Jan Doktór





21 Davidic Narratives in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Liturgical Readings


 Elżbieta Łazarewicz
-Wyrzykowska





22 The Reception of David and Michal in Twentieth and Twenty
-First
-Century Literature


 Lena
-Sofia Tiemeyer





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