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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.

Philosophy & Religion --- David, --- Daud, --- Dāwūd, --- Nabī Dāwūd, --- דוד --- דוד, --- דוד המלך --- David (Biblical figure)

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Of all the Bible's personalities, David is the most profoundly human. Courageous, cunning, and complex, he lives life to the hilt. Whatever he does, he does with all his might, exuding both vitality and vulnerability. No wonder it has been said that Israel revered Moses yet loved David. But what do we now know about the historical David? Why does his story stand at the center of the Bible? Why didn't the biblical authors present him in a more favorable light? And what is the special connection between him and Caleb - the Judahite hero remembered for his valor during the wars of conquest? In this groundbreaking study, Jacob L. Wright addresses all these questions and presents a new way of reading the biblical accounts. His work compares the function of these accounts to the role war memorials play over time. The result is a rich study that treats themes of national identity, statehood, the exercise of power, and the human condition.

David, --- Caleb --- Daud, --- Dāwūd, --- Nabī Dāwūd, --- דוד --- דוד, --- דוד המלך --- David (Biblical figure) --- David, - King of Israel. --- Caleb - (Biblical figure)

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A provocative look at the centrality of desire for ""the Land"" among early settlers in pre-state Israel

Hebrew language --- Pioneers --- Halutzim --- Zionism. --- Jewish language --- Jews --- Semitic languages, Northwest --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Chalutzim --- Ḥalutsim --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- History. --- Languages --- Zionism --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- Gordon, Aaron David, --- Gordon, Aharon David, --- Gordon, A. D., --- גארדאן, אהרן דוד בן יחיאל מיכל --- גארדאן, אהרן דוד בן יחיאל מיכל, --- גארדאן, אהרן דוד, --- גארדאן, א.ד --- גורדון, אהרון דוד --- גורדון, אהרון דוד, --- גורדון, אהרן דוד --- גורדון, אהרן דוד, --- גורדון, א. ד. --- גורדון, א. ד., --- Palestine --- Holy Land --- History --- Emigration and immigration

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David, --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Jerusalem --- In the Bible --- 226.6 --- Jerusalem in the Bible --- Handelingen der apostelen. Akten van de apostelen --- David King of Israel --- Jerusalem in the Bible. --- Daud, --- Dāwūd, --- Nabī Dāwūd, --- דוד --- דוד, --- דוד המלך --- David (Biblical figure) --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- In the Bible. --- David, - King of Israel --- Jerusalem - In the Bible

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This Noble House explores the preoccupation with biblical genealogy that emerged among Jews in the Islamic Near East between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Arnold Franklin looks to Jewish society's fascination with Davidic ancestry, examining the profusion of claims to the lineage that had already begun to appear by the year 1000, the attempts to chart the validity of such claims through elaborate genealogical lists, and the range of meanings that came to be ascribed to the House of David in this period. Jews and Muslims shared the perception that the Davidic line and the noble family of the Prophet Muhammad were counterparts to one another, but captivation with Davidic lineage was just one facet of a much broader Jewish concern with biblical ancestry. Based on documentary material from the Cairo Geniza, the book argues that this "genealogical turn" should be understood as a consequence of Jewish society's dynamic encounter with its Arab-Islamic milieu and constituted a selective adaptation to the importance of ancestry in the dominant cultural environment. While Jewish society surely had genealogical materials and preoccupations of its own upon which to draw, the Arab-Islamic regard for tracing the lineage of Muhammad provided the impetus for deploying those traditions in new and unprecedented ways. On the one hand, the increased focus on ancestry is an instance of medieval Jews reflexively and unselfconsciously making use of the cultural forms of their Muslim neighbors; on the other, it is an expression of cultural competitiveness or even resistance, an implicit response to the claim of Arab genealogical superiority that uses the very methods of the Arab "science of genealogy." To be sure, Franklin notes, Jews were only one of several non-Arab minority groups to take up genealogy in this way. At the broadest level, then, This Noble House illuminates a strategy that various minority populations utilized as they sought legitimacy within the medieval Arab-Islamic world.

Islam --- Judaism --- Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Relations --- Judaism. --- Islam. --- Genealogy --- History. --- Nobility. --- David, --- Family. --- Islamic Empire --- Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Middle East --- Muslim Empire --- Ethnic relations. --- History --- Daud, --- Dāwūd, --- Nabī Dāwūd, --- דוד --- דוד, --- דוד המלך --- David (Biblical figure) --- Jewish Studies. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies.