traditions associated with it. In the Dead Sea Scrolls and other texts of Second Temple Judaism, there are, of course, other messianic paradigms—priest, prophet, and heavenly figure.4 If we wish to focus on the royal paradigm, however, the obvious place to begin is the so-called “royal psalms” of the Hebrew Bible. Most scholars of this century have followed H. Gunkel’s analysis in assigning to this category Psalms 2, 18, 20, 21, 45, 72, 89, 101, 110, 132, and 144.5 Most scholars also agree that