Thou Art The Man: The Masculinity Of David In The Christian And Jewish Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series)

This book is a work of medieval history and the history of gender and sexuality. It looks at the biblical King David, who has multiple paradigmatic identities in the Middle Ages: king, military leader, adulterous lover, sinner. It views David primarily from the perspective of medieval European Christian society but also from the medieval European Jewish viewpoint--

• | Author: Ruth Mazo Karras
• | Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• | Publication Date: April 30, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0812253027
• | ISBN-13: 9780812253023