Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages PDF
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Thou Art the Man THE MIDDLE AGES SERIES Ruth Mazo Karras, Series Editor Edward Peters, Founding Editor A complete list of books in the series is available from the publisher. THOU ART THE MAN The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages Ruth Mazo Karras university of pennsylvania press philadelphia Copyright © 2021 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 www . upenn . edu / pennpress Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid- free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Karras, Ruth Mazo, author. Title: Thou art the man : the masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages / Ruth Mazo Karras. Other titles: Middle Ages series. Description: 1st edition. | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021] | Series: The Middle Ages series | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020037028 | ISBN 978-0-8122-5302-3 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: David, King of Israel. | Masculinity— Europe—History—To 1500. | Masculinity—Religious aspects—Judaism—History—To 1500. | Masculinity— Religious aspects—Christianity—History—To 1500. Classification: LCC BS580.D3 K36 2021 | DDC 222/.4092—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020037028 For CGK, again and again contents Acknowl edgments ix List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1. David His Tens of Thousands: Prowess and Piety 23 Chapter 2. Surpassing the Love of Women: Love, Friendship, Loyalty Between Men 64 Chapter 3. I Have Sinned Against the Lord: Sex and Penitence 101 Chapter 4. With Sacred Music upon the Harp: Creativity and Ecstasy 136 Chapter 5. O My Son Absalom: Establishing a Dynasty 165 Conclusion 205 Notes 209 Bibliography 261 Index 295 acknowl edgments My work on what would become this book began in 2012–2013 at the Katz Cen- ter for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. I thank the then director, David Ruderman, and the staff for making that year pos si ble, and my colleagues there, especially Esperanza Alfonso, the late Remie Constable, Eli- sheva Baumgarten, Judah Galinsky, Elisabeth Hollender, Katelyn Mesler, S. J. Pearce, Rami Reiner, Rebecca Winer, and Luke Yarborough, from whom I learned a g reat deal. It continued in 2016–2017 at the Israel Institute for Ad- vanced Studies. Thanks to Moshe Rosman for the invitation, and to medievalist colleagues Elisheva Baumgarten, Renée Levine Melammed, Claudia Rosenzweig, Paola Tartakoff, and Oded Zinger for the help particularly with Hebrew sources. The latter research year was supported by a fellowship from EURIAS, Eu ro pean Institutes for Advanced Study. It continued once again in 2018 as the Donald Bullough Fellow at the University of St Andrews, and in 2019 as Scholar in Res- idence at the American Acad emy in Rome. During most of the time I worked on this book, I was employed by the Uni- versity of Minnesota. I thank the College of Liberal Arts and Department of History there, especially Gary Cohen and Elaine Tyler May as chairs, for mak- ing the research leaves pos si ble, and all my colleagues there, especially Bernard Bachrach, Mary Franklin Brown, Michelle Hamilton, Michael Lower, Wim Phillips, Kathryn Reyerson, Andrea Sterk, and John Watkins, for making it a wonderful intellectual community. The Department of History as a whole slowed my pro gress on this book by electing me its chair from 2013 to 2016, but I never- theless thank them for their confidence in me and their support. I have presented portions of this work to a variety of diff er ent audiences, and I thank them all for their invitations and feedback. In roughly chronological order: University of Rochester; Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Peking University; “New Directions in Medieval Masculini- ties” conference, Duke University; Ohio Wesleyan University; Hollins College;
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