This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Medieval Islamic East by Arnold E. Franklin National Jewish Book Award Winner the considerable legacy of the

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In Jewish Roots

This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Medieval Islamic East by Arnold E. Franklin National Jewish Book Award Winner the considerable legacy of theThis Noble House explores the preoccupation with biblical genealogy that emerged among Jews in the Islamic Near East between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Arnold Franklin looks to Jewish society's fascination with Davidic ancestry, examining the profusion of claims to the lineage that had already begun to appear by the year 1000, the attempts to chart the validity of such claims through elaborate genealogical lists, and the range of meanings