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Erhard Gerstenberger begins this volume with an examination of the nature of cultic poetry, its role in ancient Near Eastern religion, and more specifically its role in the religion of Israel. He goes on to survey the genres of cultic poetry, including lament, complaint, and thanksgiving, and then focuses on the book of Psalms as an example of cultic poetry, first analyzing the book as a whole...

The king symbolically defeated the evil powers and, by performing the sacred marriage rite, secured fertility and well-being for the coming year (Thureau-Dangin; Kramer, Marriage). Some scholars have interpreted most ritual activities in the ancient Near East as reflecting those New Year rites. Others deny any all-pervasive influence of royal ideology, especially in the OT. (For a discussion of this problem, see Bernhardt; de Fraine; Lipiński, Royauté.) In any case, state-centered religion and cult
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