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Rabbi David - A Documentary Catalogue (Paperback)
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Rabbi David - A Documentary Catalogue (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Judaism
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Rabbinic documents of David, progenitor of the Messiah, carry
forward the scriptural narrative of David the king. But he also is
turned by Rabbinic writings of late antiquity-from the Mishnah
through the Yerushalmi and the Bavli-into a sage. Consequently, the
Rabbis' Messiah is a rabbi. How did this transformation come about?
Of what kinds of writings does it consist? What sequence of
writings conveyed the transformation? And most important: what do
we learn about the movement from one set of Israelite writings to
take over, or submit to the values of, another set of writings?
These are the questions answered here for David, king of Israel.
Rabbi David proves that the first exposition of the figure of Rabbi
David in a program of elaboration and of protracted exposition of
law and Scripture is found in the Bavli. Prior to the closure of
that document, that is, in the Rabbinic documents that came to
closure before the Bavli, we do not find an elaborate exposition of
the figure of David as a rabbi. By contrast, in the Bavli, ample
canonical evidence attests to the sages' transformation of David,
king of Israel, into a rabbi. So while bits and pieces of Rabbi
David find their way into most of the canonical documents, we find
the elaborately spelled out Rabbi David to begin with in the Bavli,
now represented as a disciple of sages and a devotee of study of
the Torah. That usage attracts attention because when we encounter
David in Rabbinic literature-as in all other Judaic canons, not
only Rabbinic-this signals we are meeting the embodiment of the
Messiah. The representation of the kings of Israel in the Davidic
line as heirs of David forms a chapter in exposing the Messianic
message of Rabbinic Judaism.
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