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Book SynopsisKing 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.
Table of ContentsList 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-Spanò 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 Kitāb al-waraʿ of ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥabīb (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 ʿEli 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 Saʿadya Gaon’s Commentary on Psalms and Its Syriac and Karaite Contexts Arye Zoref 10 Psalms to Reason, Psalms to Heal The Scriptures in Early Rūm 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 ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl’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 Kaṯīr’s (d. 774/1373) Treatment of the David and Uriah Narrative The Issue of Isrāʾīliyyāt 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 Index
