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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
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.
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.
Marzena Zawanowska, Ph.D. (2008), University of Warsaw (UW) is Assistant Professor at that university (Faculty of History). She has published monographs, translations and scholarly articles chiefly on medieval Karaite Bible exegesis, including The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben Ê¿Eli the Karaite on the Abraham Narratives (Genesis 11:10â25:18) (Brill, 2012).
Mateusz Wilk, PhD (2008), Ãcole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) is Assistant Professor at University of Warsaw (Faculty of Arts and Culture). He has published translations and articles chiefly on history and culture of Muslim Spain (al-Andalus). His edition and English translation of KitÄb al-wara῾ of ῾Abd al-Malik b. ḤabÄ«b (d. 238/853) will soon be published by the University of Cordoba Press.
Contributors are: Åukasz NiesioÅowski-Spanò, Sivan Nir, Mateusz Wilk, Yair Zoran, Barbara Gryczan, Marzena Zawanowska, Jerzy Pysiak, Ruth Mazo Karras, Arye Zoref, Miriam Lindgren Hjälm, David Vishanoff, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Witold Witakowski, Zsuzsanna Olach , Daniel Bodi, Michael Avioz, Diana Lipton, Meira Polliack, Orly Mizrachi, Marianna Klar, Jan Doktór, Ela Lazarewicz-Wyrzykowska, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer.
Mateusz Wilk, PhD (2008), Ãcole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) is Assistant Professor at University of Warsaw (Faculty of Arts and Culture). He has published translations and articles chiefly on history and culture of Muslim Spain (al-Andalus). His edition and English translation of KitÄb al-wara῾ of ῾Abd al-Malik b. ḤabÄ«b (d. 238/853) will soon be published by the University of Cordoba Press.
Contributors are: Åukasz NiesioÅowski-Spanò, Sivan Nir, Mateusz Wilk, Yair Zoran, Barbara Gryczan, Marzena Zawanowska, Jerzy Pysiak, Ruth Mazo Karras, Arye Zoref, Miriam Lindgren Hjälm, David Vishanoff, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Witold Witakowski, Zsuzsanna Olach , Daniel Bodi, Michael Avioz, Diana Lipton, Meira Polliack, Orly Mizrachi, Marianna Klar, Jan Doktór, Ela Lazarewicz-Wyrzykowska, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer.
List of Illustrations
Transliteration
Notes on Contributors
The Variety of Davids in Monotheistic Traditionsâ
âAn Introduction
âMarzena Zawanowska
1 David in History and in the Hebrew Bible
âÅukasz NiesioÅowski-Spanò
2 David the Pious Musician in Midrashic Literature and Medieval Muslim Sources
âSivan Nir
3 The Weeping King of Muslim Pietistic Traditionâ
âDavid in the KitÄb al-waraÊ¿ of Ê¿Abd al-Malik b. ḤabÄ«b (d. 238/853) and in Earlier Islamic Sources âMateusz Wilk
4 David and the Temple of Solomon according to the Arabic Commentaries of Yefet ben Ê¿Eli the Karaite on the Books of Kings and Chronicles
âYair Zoran
5 David as Warrior, Leader, and Poet in Medieval Hebrew Poetry of al-Andalusâ
âShmuel ha-Nagidâs Self-Portrait as âThe David of His Ageâ âBarbara Gryczan
6 David in Judah Haleviâs Book of the Kuzariâ
âA Reconciliation Project âMarzena Zawanowska
7 Saint Louis as a New David and Paris as a New Jerusalem in Medieval French Hagiographic Literature
âJerzy Pysiak
8 Male Friendship in Medieval Latin Literatureâ
âDavid and Jonathan
âRuth Mazo Karras
9 David the Prophet in SaÊ¿adya Gaonâs Commentary on Psalms and Its Syriac and Karaite Contexts
âArye Zoref
10 Psalms to Reason, Psalms to Healâ
âThe Scriptures in Early RÅ«m Orthodox Treatises
âMiriam Lindgren Hjälm
11 Images of David in Several Muslim Rewritings of the Psalms
âDavid R. Vishanoff
12 Davidâs Psalter in Christian Arabic Dressâ
âÊ¿Abd AllÄh ibn al-Faá¸lâs Translation and Commentary
âJuan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
13 King David and the Psalter in Ethiopian Cultural Setting
âWitold Witakowski
14 Davidâs Psalms in Eastern European Karaite Literature
âZsuzsanna Olach
15 The Four Wives of David and the Four Women of Odysseusâ
âA Comparative Approach
âDaniel Bodi
16 Josephusâ Retelling of the David and Bathsheba Narrative
âMichael Avioz
17 Our Mother, Our Queenâ
âBathsheba through Early Jewish, Christian and Muslim Eyes
âDiana Lipton and Meira Polliack
18 Godâs Master Planâ
âThe Story of David and Bathsheba in Some Early Syriac Commentaries
âOrly Mizrachi
19 Ibn Kaṯīrâs (d. 774/1373) Treatment of the David and Uriah Narrativeâ
âThe Issue of IsrÄʾīliyyÄt and the Syrian School of Exegesis
âMarianna Klar
20 âDavid Was Secretly a Womanââ
âKing David as a Messianic Topos in the Teaching of Jacob Frank
âJan Doktór
21 Davidic Narratives in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Liturgical Readings
âElżbieta Åazarewicz-Wyrzykowska
22 The Reception of David and Michal in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Literature
âLena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Index
Transliteration
Notes on Contributors
The Variety of Davids in Monotheistic Traditionsâ
âAn Introduction
âMarzena Zawanowska
1 David in History and in the Hebrew Bible
âÅukasz NiesioÅowski-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
âSivan Nir
3 The Weeping King of Muslim Pietistic Traditionâ
âDavid in the KitÄb al-waraÊ¿ of Ê¿Abd al-Malik b. ḤabÄ«b (d. 238/853) and in Earlier Islamic Sources âMateusz Wilk
4 David and the Temple of Solomon according to the Arabic Commentaries of Yefet ben Ê¿Eli the Karaite on the Books of Kings and Chronicles
âYair Zoran
5 David as Warrior, Leader, and Poet in Medieval Hebrew Poetry of al-Andalusâ
âShmuel ha-Nagidâs Self-Portrait as âThe David of His Ageâ âBarbara Gryczan
6 David in Judah Haleviâs Book of the Kuzariâ
âA Reconciliation Project âMarzena Zawanowska
7 Saint Louis as a New David and Paris as a New Jerusalem in Medieval French Hagiographic Literature
âJerzy Pysiak
8 Male Friendship in Medieval Latin Literatureâ
âDavid and Jonathan
âRuth Mazo Karras
part 2: The Psalter of David in Monotheistic Traditions
9 David the Prophet in SaÊ¿adya Gaonâs Commentary on Psalms and Its Syriac and Karaite Contexts
âArye Zoref
10 Psalms to Reason, Psalms to Healâ
âThe Scriptures in Early RÅ«m Orthodox Treatises
âMiriam Lindgren Hjälm
11 Images of David in Several Muslim Rewritings of the Psalms
âDavid R. Vishanoff
12 Davidâs Psalter in Christian Arabic Dressâ
âÊ¿Abd AllÄh ibn al-Faá¸lâs Translation and Commentary
âJuan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
13 King David and the Psalter in Ethiopian Cultural Setting
âWitold Witakowski
14 Davidâs Psalms in Eastern European Karaite Literature
âZsuzsanna 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 Odysseusâ
âA Comparative Approach
âDaniel Bodi
16 Josephusâ Retelling of the David and Bathsheba Narrative
âMichael Avioz
17 Our Mother, Our Queenâ
âBathsheba through Early Jewish, Christian and Muslim Eyes
âDiana Lipton and Meira Polliack
18 Godâs Master Planâ
âThe Story of David and Bathsheba in Some Early Syriac Commentaries
âOrly Mizrachi
19 Ibn Kaṯīrâs (d. 774/1373) Treatment of the David and Uriah Narrativeâ
âThe Issue of IsrÄʾīliyyÄt and the Syrian School of Exegesis
âMarianna Klar
part 4: Reinventing David in Early Modern and Modern Religious Thought and Literature
20 âDavid Was Secretly a Womanââ
âKing David as a Messianic Topos in the Teaching of Jacob Frank
âJan Doktór
21 Davidic Narratives in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Liturgical Readings
âElżbieta Åazarewicz-Wyrzykowska
22 The Reception of David and Michal in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Literature
âLena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Index
The main beneficiaries of the volume will be scholars and students of Jewish, Christian and Islamic studies, especially those interested in Bible and QurʾÄn exegesis, as well as other religious literature, but also scholars of comparative literature and literary theory, historians, historians of art, cultural scientists and possibly sociologists. Yet, we hope that the book will offer something of interest to a wider public which may benefit from its results, given the socio-historical importance of interreligious relations and the impact that these religious traditions had on the development of human culture and civilization as a whole.