By R. Norman Whybray
ISBN-10: 1850757976
ISBN-13: 9781850757979
This e-book discusses the speculation that the Psalter was once compiled with the explicit purpose that it's going to be used as a publication for personal non secular analyzing. it really is argued that if this have been so, the paintings of the ultimate editors should not have been restrained to arranging the psalms in a specific order yet could have integrated additions and interpolations meant to provide the entire e-book a brand new orientation. An research of chosen psalms exhibits that even if the Psalter can have turn into a publication for personal devotion no longer lengthy after its compilation, there's little proof that it used to be compiled for that purpose.
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There is no consensus whether Psalm 19A is an ancient cultic hymn or a (presumably later) wisdom psalm. Further, there are two different opinions about the composition of Psalm 19B; that is, on the question whether Psalm 19 is the result of the combination of two originally quite separate psalms (which must presumably presuppose that the synthesizer was fortunate, or especially inspired, to find two such psalms which by chance illuminated one another in this way), or whether Psalm 19B was deliberately composed and appended to an older Psalm 19A by a writer who had a theological comment to make on it.
Originally this statement, in view of v. 6a, which praises Yahweh for the greatness of his deeds (macasm), was not a statement about his wisdom. But it is unique in its expression; and if the interpolator understood it in such a sense (cf. Akkadian emequ, 'to be wise'), he may have judged it appropriate to add that those who have not accepted the gift of wisdom that he offers are to be accounted among the wicked. There are also strong wisdom (or Torah) overtones in vv. 13-15. The verb prh, 'flourish', is used again (vv.
7-8 is not entirely certain; apart from other problems, it is 14. W. Brueggemann, The Psalms and the Life of Faith (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995), pp. 235-57. 15. H. Ridderbos, 'The Structure of Psalm xl', OTS 14 (1965), pp. 296-304. 48 Reading the Psalms as a Book disputed whether the 'scroll of the book' in v. 8 refers to the Torah. Most commentators regard v. 9 as integral to the psalm, although Kraus remarked that the reference to the Torah here introduces an entirely new note. Verse 9 is no doubt to be understood especially in conjunction with v.
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