David the Prophet in Sa‘adya Gaon’s Commentary on Psalms and Its Syriac and Karaite Contexts

David the Prophet in Sa‘adya Gaon’s Commentary on Psalms and Its Syriac and Karaite ContextsThemes in Biblical Narrative 29Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/EG28YNZ8/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AryeZorefDavid the Prophet in Sa‘adya Gaon’s Commentary on Psalms and Its Syriac and Karaite Contextshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/EG28YNZ8https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/EG28YNZ8https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/EG28YNZ8MarzenaZawanowskaMateuszWilkThe Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Warrior, Poet, Prophet and KingLeidenBrill2021209-238Themes in Biblical Narrative 29The paper analyzes Saʿadya’s Commentary on Psalms against the backdrop of similar commentaries produced by Christian (in Syriac) and Karaite (in Arabic) exegetes. It argues that in an attempt to stress the unity of the book of Psalms and its prophetic nature, the Gaon selectively adopted some concepts from the Syriac commentaries. It demonstrates that he modeled his introduction to the commentary on the introductions of two Syriac commentators and that he adopted the Syriac Nestorian idea that David wrote all the Psalms, but rejected some of the Nestorian interpretative approaches, such as a general disregard for the Psalms’ headings. Zoref, Arye. “David the Prophet in Sa‘Adya Gaon’s Commentary on Psalms and Its Syriac and Karaite Contexts.” In The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King, edited by Marzena Zawanowska and Mateusz Wilk, 209–38. Themes in Biblical Narrative 29. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Arye Zoref, David the Prophet in Sa‘Adya Gaon’s Commentary on Psalms and Its Syriac and Karaite Contexts, in The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King, ed. Marzena Zawanowska and Mateusz Wilk, Themes in Biblical Narrative 29 (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 209–38.DavidJewish-Christian relationsNestoriansOld TestamentPsalmsRabbinic JudaismSaadia GaonSyriac influence [Judaism]VII-XVIII CEX CEexegesis