@Book{1806423359, editor="Zawanowska, Marzena and Wilk, Mateusz", title="character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: warrior, poet, prophet and king", series="Themes in biblical narrative 29", year="2021", publisher="Brill", address="Leiden", keywords="Philosophy {\&} Religion", contents="List of Illustrations -- Transliteration -- Notes on Contributors -- The Variety of Davids in Monotheistic Traditions{\emspace} -- An Introduction -- Marzena Zawanowska -- 1 David in History and in the Hebrew Bible -- {\L}ukasz Niesio{\l}owski-Span{\`o} -- 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{\emspace} -- David in the Kit{\={a}}b al-waraʿ of ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥab{\={\i}}b (d. 238/853) and in Earlier Islamic Sources {\emspace} 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{\emspace} -- Shmuel ha-Nagid's Self-Portrait as ``The David of His Age'' {\emspace} Barbara Gryczan -- 6 David in Judah Halevi's Book of the Kuzari{\emspace} -- A Reconciliation Project {\emspace} 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{\emspace} -- 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{\emspace} -- The Scriptures in Early R{\={u}}m Orthodox Treatises -- Miriam Lindgren Hj{\"a}lm -- 11 Images of David in Several Muslim Rewritings of the Psalms -- David R. Vishanoff -- 12 David's Psalter in Christian Arabic Dress{\emspace} -- ʿAbd All{\={a}}h 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{\emspace} -- A Comparative Approach -- Daniel Bodi -- 16 Josephus' Retelling of the David and Bathsheba Narrative -- Michael Avioz -- 17 Our Mother, Our Queen{\emspace} -- Bathsheba through Early Jewish, Christian and Muslim Eyes -- Diana Lipton and Meira Polliack -- 18 God's Master Plan{\emspace} -- The Story of David and Bathsheba in Some Early Syriac Commentaries -- Orly Mizrachi -- 19 Ibn Kaṯ{\={\i}}r's (d. 774/1373) Treatment of the David and Uriah Narrative{\emspace} -- The Issue of Isr{\={a}}ʾ{\={\i}}liyy{\={a}}t 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''{\emspace} -- King David as a Messianic Topos in the Teaching of Jacob Frank -- Jan Dokt{\'o}r -- 21 Davidic Narratives in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Liturgical Readings -- El{\.{z}}bieta {\L}azarewicz-Wyrzykowska -- 22 The Reception of David and Michal in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Literature -- Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer -- Index.", abstract="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", note="edited by Marzena Zawanowska, Mateusz Wilk", note="Includes bibliographical references and index", isbn="9789004465978", doi="10.1163/9789004465978", url="https://brill.com/view/title/60409", url="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004465978", language="English" }