The Star/Shield of David ✡ isn't an important religious symbol in itself, but it has, in relatively recent years, come to represent Jews and Judaism. I can sorta see an elision/transference process: "People of the Star of David" => People of [the Star of] David => People of David. Or maybe the reasoning that if David was important enough to name the symbol after, he was important enough to be who the people who used the symbol were from.
but he seems to me much more important to Christians (because of the tendency to identify Jesus as being of the line of David).
But the actual Jewish Messiah/Mashiach (or at least the most important and well-known concept of the Messiah, currently and historically) is indeed supposed to be of the line of David. The whole point of the genealogical retcons in Matthew and Luke was to associate the lineage of David with Jesus, because that's what most Jewish people even of that period knew about.
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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2020-10-11 09:35 am
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(Anonymous) 2020-10-12 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)But the actual Jewish Messiah/Mashiach (or at least the most important and well-known concept of the Messiah, currently and historically) is indeed supposed to be of the line of David. The whole point of the genealogical retcons in Matthew and Luke was to associate the lineage of David with Jesus, because that's what most Jewish people even of that period knew about.