TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zawanowska,Marzena
AU  - Wilk,Mateusz
TI  - The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King
T2  - Themes in Biblical Narrative Series
SN  - 9789004465978
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Transliteration -- Notes on Contributors -- The Variety of Davids in Monotheistic Traditions An Introduction -- Chapter 1 David in History and in the Hebrew Bible -- Part 1 The Images of David in Medieval Jewish, Muslim and Christian Sources -- Chapter 2 David the Pious Musician in Midrashic Literature and Medieval Muslim Sources -- Chapter 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 -- Cchapter 4 David and the Temple of Solomon in Medieval Karaite Sources The Arabic Commentaries of Yefet ben ʿEli on the Books of Kings and Chronicles -- Chapter 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" -- Chapter 6 David in Medieval Jewish Thought Judah Halevi's Book of the Kuzari as a Reconciliation Project -- Chapter 7 Saint Louis as a New David and Paris as a New Jerusalem in Medieval French Hagiographic Literature -- Chapter 8 David and Jonathan as a Paradigm of Male Friendship in Medieval Latin Literature -- Part 2 The Psalter of David in Monotheistic Traditions -- Chapter 9 David the Prophet in Saʿadya Gaon's Commentary on Psalms and Its Syriac and Karaite Contexts -- Chapter 10 Psalms to Reason, Psalms to Heal The Scriptures in Early Rūm Orthodox Treatises -- Chapter 11 Images of David in Several Muslim Rewritings of the Psalms -- Chapter 12 David's Psalter in Christian Arabic Dress ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl's Translation and Commentary -- Chapter 13 King David and the Psalter in Ethiopian Cultural Setting -- Chapter 14 David's Psalms in Eastern European Karaite Literature -- Part 3 David and His Women: The Cross-Religious Reception Exegesis of the Bathsheba Narrative; Chapter 15 The Four Wives of David and the Four Women of Odysseus A Comparative Approach -- Chapter 16 Josephus' Retelling of the David and Bathsheba Narrative -- Chapter 17 Our Mother, Our Queen Bathsheba through Early Jewish, Christian and Muslim Eyes -- Chapter 18 God's Master Plan The Story of David and Bathsheba in Some Early Syriac Commentaries -- Chapter 19 Ibn Kaṯīr's (d. 774/1373) Treatment of the David and Uriah Narrative The Issue of Isrāʾīliyyāt and the Syrian School of Exegesis -- Part 4 Reinventing David in Early Modern and Modern Religious Thought and Literature -- Chapter 20 "David Was Secretly a Woman" King David as a Messianic Topos in the Teaching of Jacob Frank -- Chapter 21 Davidic Narratives in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Liturgical Readings -- Chapter 22 The Reception of David and Michal in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Literature -- Index of Sources -- Index of Sacred Scriptures -- Index of Ancient and Medieval Literatures -- Index of Authors -- General Index
N2  - 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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