David's full genealogy?
I was perusing my files earlier in search of interesting Purim info, and came across an interesting tidbit I had long but forgotten. Yehuda Levi Nachum z"l was a famous collector of Yemenite manuscripts. Not long ago, his collection was donated to the National Library of Israel. Some time last year, I think, while collecting sources for a different project (can't remember what it was), I skimmed some of his published compilations of manuscripts. In the volume מיצירות ספרותיות מתימן (Of Yemenite Literary Works), p. 192, he published a genealogy of a man named Yeshuah ben Aharon (ישועה בן אהרן), which included tracing the man to Yaakov Avinu through Yehudah. What was shocking, however, was that the lineage was not the standard Davidic genealogy (i.e., Yaakov > Yehudah > Peretz > Ram > Aminadav > Nachshon > Salmah/Salmon > Boaz > Oved > Yishai > David >>> [further descendants]), as we find it in Tanachic sources and most later Yehudaic-tri...