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Book: If I Forget You, Jerusalem!

Chapter: 7. The Introduction to David's Psalms: New Reflections on Psalm 2

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.44798

Blurb:

In continuation of the discussion about the origins of Ps 2 in the previous chapter, the discussion here centres on the issue of the function of Ps 2 as an introduction in combination with Ps 1 to the collection of psalms. The key issue centres around the address at the beginning of Ps 2 to the king as messiah. Maybe it is a link to the idea that the collection should be read as a messianic collection.

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