David the Pious Musician in Midrashic Literature and Medieval Muslim Sources

Sivan Nir

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

In: The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

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Pages:: 43–66

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004465978_004

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The paper explores different ways in which Judaism and Islam treated the subject of David’s proclivity for music, highlighting their mutual interdependence as well as originality in this respect. It shows that the Talmuds, Ruth Rabbah and Midrash on Psalms depict David as a musician turned nightly scholar, and investigates how the midrashic imagery informed medieval Jewish commentaries on Psalms 107–108, as well as how it influenced portrayals of David’s piety in Islam and the depictions of his musical skills (used against the demons) in various classical Muslim sources.

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The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King

Series: Themes in Biblical Narrative, Volume: 29

Cover The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004465978

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 25 Nov 2021

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

Part 2 The Psalter of David in Monotheistic Traditions

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

Part 4 Reinventing David in Early Modern and Modern Religious Thought and Literature

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