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In his most ambitious undertaking, the late Samuel Terrien brings together a lifetime of scholarship on the Psalms. The commentary’s clear and insightful introduction considers these important subjects on the Psalms: their longevity and ecumenicity; their Near Eastern background; the Hebrew text and ancient versions; their music; their strophic structure; their literary genre; their theology; and...
On account of its irregular meter,3 this psalm has sometimes been assigned to didactic prose, but its features—keywords, assonance, such as sibilants in the first stichos, and an exceptional strophic structure—indicate a poetic composition fit to be sung, not spoken. Unlike most other psalms, which usually comprise strophes of double or triple stichoi, each strophe contains only a single triad preceded and followed by an opening and closing element. COMMENTARY Strophe I: The Dynamism of the Righteous
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