An imagined book gets a new text: Psalms of the Muslim David
Numerous Arabic manuscripts of the Psalms of David' contain not the biblical Psalms but Muslim compositions in the form of exhortations addressed by God to David. A survey of five manuscripts reveals that all such texts studied to date can be traced to two early source collections, whose conte...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2011]
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Year: 2011, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 85-99 |
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Psalms
B ḥadīth qudsī B Muslim use of the Bible B dialogues with God (munājāt) B Tales of the Prophets (qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā, ) B interreligious polemic B David B Rewritten Bible B Wisdom Literature B Sermons |
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| Summary: | Numerous Arabic manuscripts of the Psalms of David' contain not the biblical Psalms but Muslim compositions in the form of exhortations addressed by God to David. A survey of five manuscripts reveals that all such texts studied to date can be traced to two early source collections, whose contents were rewritten and expanded by three medieval authors and numerous copyists to produce four distinct texts in seven different recensions. These texts intersect with several types of literature: rewritten Bible, interreligious polemic, sermons, wisdom literature, divine sayings, law, Tales of the Prophets, and dialogues with God' (munājāt). They should be regarded not as polemical rewritings of the Bible, but as rewritten Qur'an, in which each author employs the idea of David and his Psalms to lend the authority of revelation to his own message. |
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| ISSN: | 0959-6410 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2011.543597 |