Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King

Zawanowska, Marzena; Wilk, Mateusz

Brill

12/2021

336

Dura

Inglês

9789004465961

15 a 20 dias

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Transliteration


Notes on Contributors





The Variety of Davids in Monotheistic Traditions?


?An Introduction


?Marzena Zawanowska





1 David in History and in the Hebrew Bible


?Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano





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 Kitab al-wara? of ?Abd al-Malik b. ?abib (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 Rum Orthodox Treatises


?Miriam Lindgren Hjaelm





11 Images of David in Several Muslim Rewritings of the Psalms


?David R. Vishanoff





12 David's Psalter in Christian Arabic Dress?


??Abd Allah 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?ir's (d. 774/1373) Treatment of the David and Uriah Narrative?


?The Issue of Isra?iliyyat 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 Doktor





21 Davidic Narratives in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Liturgical Readings


?Elzbieta Lazarewicz-Wyrzykowska





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


?Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer





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Bathsheba; Bible exegesis; King David; Psalms; Qurʾān exegesis; Zabūr; comparative religious literature; cross-cultural contacts; interreligious relations; medieval Christianity; medieval Islam; medieval Judaism; monotheistic traditions; reception of sacred scriptures