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  • From: goranson AT duke.edu
  • To: Søren Holst <sh AT teol.ku.dk>, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] PS: David "expelling" a soul in the New Testament?
  • Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:04:29 -0500

Hi, Soren. I don't know the answer. I don't recall hearing this story. but,
since no one else replied, I'll make a few wild guesses of places to look.
Possibly relevant Library of Congress subject headings include David, King of
Israel--in literature. One book in that category, e.g., is
The David myth in Western literature /
Raymond-Jean Frontain; Jan Wojcik 1980
English Book xi, 212 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press,

Simlarly, Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint--legends.
Charlesworth and Mueller edited The New Testament Apocrypha and
Pseudepigrapha:
a guide to Publications. Schneemelcher and Wilson NT Apocrypha didn't show
anything obvious, but I didn't look hard.

Another possibility is that this story could appear in an illuminated
manuscript
or other art. If so, The Index of Christian art from Princeton might help. It
has a subscription online form. And there's a related book:
King David in the Index of Christian art /
Colum Hourihane 2002 xxvi, 438 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ; ISBN: 0691095469 (cloth : alk.
paper) 9780691095462 (cloth : alk. paper) 0691095477 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691095479 (pbk. : alk. paper)

And whichever likely suspect periodical indexs at hand.
Good luck.
Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson


Quoting Søren Holst <sh AT teol.ku.dk>:

I should have stated clearly:

The note, although appended to a passage in 1 Sam, explicitly talks
about this apocryphal episode taking place "in the New Testament",
obviously intending a little typological parallelizing.

In my rough translation of my colleaue's transcription of the Old
Danish, it goes:

"In the Old Testament, David expelled the Devil from Saul, but what
he did in the New Testament was this: When a pious man was about to
die, but for fear of the devil his soul was unwilling to leave the
body (that is why the Virgin Mary asked her son not to have to see
the devil at death), the angel of the aforementioned soul came and
asked her [the soul, grammatically fem.] to depart voluntarily: no
harm would come to her. And yet she refused. The angel then fetched
David with his musical instrument, and he played for the dying man
and he [writer's error? presumably she = the soul] gladly departed."

kol tuv
S

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Dear listers

Somewhat off-topic, I'm mainly hoping someone will tell me the
correct place to ask the question:

A colleague is working on a 13-14th century CE manuscript of a Danish
Bible translation which is mostly just a straight rendering of the
Vulgate, but has occasional additions.

One tells of an instant, where the soul of a dying, pious man refuses
to leave the body, and "it's (the soul's) angel" has to fetch king
David with his musical instrument to persuade the soul.

The instance is reported as a note to 1 Sam 16,23 (David driving the
eveil spirit away from Saul) in the manuscript.

There is bound to be a source for this information, be it an
apocryphal gospel or an independent legend or whatever. But where???

any suggestions highly appreciated

kol tuv
Soren
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