Reading Biblical Outlaws: The 'Rise of David' Story in the Fourteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Jones, Timothy S.
Reading Biblical Outlaws: The 'Rise of David' Story in the Fourteenth Century
- Published
- Sheila Delany, ed. Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 109-32.
- Description
- Surveys various allusions to and summaries of the story of David in English medieval tradition (including allusions in MLT, MerT, and Mel), arguing that treatments of the story reveal simultaneous desires: to embrace Hebrew Scripture as authentic and authoritative and to rewrite it as more useful to a Christian audience.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Tale of Melibee.