By Jamie A. Grant
This publication contributes to at least one of the extra fruitful components of previous testomony experiences in recent times: the canonical examine of the Psalter. It asks why the 3 psalms that target the torah (instruction) of Yahweh (Pss 1, 19, and 119) are linked to royal psalms and means that the reply lies in a piece of writing try to draw awareness to Deuteronomy's kingship legislation (Deut 17:14-20). This specialise in the Pentateuch's paradigm for kingship is intended not just to form the psalmic presentation of the eschatological king but in addition to direct the reader to a piety that each believer should still emulate - the king as exemplar for the folks of God. This quantity may be of curiosity to students of the Psalter, Deuteronomy, and intertextual stories in addition to ecocnomic examining for an individual drawn to biblical views on dwelling because the humans of God.
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It would be fair to say that traditional formcritical approaches tended to minimise the significance of the torah psalms. 59 Mays, “Place of the Torah-Psalms,” 3. Methodological Considerations 21 heart of Books I and V respectively. 62 In accordance with this prevailing emphasis on formal categories, the torah psalms were relegated, in scholarly discussion, from the significance which their positioning in the Psalter seems to deserve. Westermann was one of the first to examine the shaping of the Psalter and to note the prominent placing of the torah-focussed Pss 1 and 119.
6). 89 Obviously, there are many more kingship psalms in the Psalter than are considered in this study. The present thesis represents one aspect of the theology of kingship in the psalms—the recollection of the ideal of kingship via reflection upon the Kingship Law. 90 Jon D. Levenson, “The Sources of Torah: Psalm 119 and the Modes of Revelation in Second Temple Judaism,” in Ancient Israelite Religion: Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross (ed. P. D. ; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987). 91 Mitchell, Message, 15.
The approach will be broadly intertextual, in that linguistic similarities (of which there is a significant number) between the torah-kingship psalms and Deuteronomy shall be pointed out. ” The torah-kingship psalm groupings have a message to convey to their reader, as does the Law of the King. Is this the same message? Are these texts concerned with the same theological issues? If so, then there may well be reason to conclude that the Kingship Law was the intellectual paradigm for the placement of torah and kingship laws alongside one another.