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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...
One cannot demonstrate, however, that the preservation of these psalms proves the existence of an annual ceremony of the “royal passion,” similar to that of the ancient Near Eastern rites of humiliation of the monarchs, and inspired by the strokes of misfortune inflicted upon David’s descendants, especially Hezekiah, Josiah, and Jehoiachin.56 It is nevertheless probable that such collections of sacred songs existed orally before the exile in Babylon. (iii) The Psalms on the kingship of Yahweh (Psalms
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