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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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] På vegne af Søren Holst
Sendt: 9. november 2007 09:40
Til: b-hebrew
Emne: [b-hebrew] David "expelling" a soul in the New Testament?
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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