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The Message of the Psalter: An Eschatological Programme in the Book of Psalms is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume is a contribution to the contemporary debate on the purpose of the Psalms in the Bible. In it, David Mitchell maintains that the Psalms contain a clear and purposeful order and a discernable record of eschatological events—Israel in exile, the appearance of a Messiah, the gathering of Israel, conflicts among nations, suffering, the scattering of Israel in the wilderness, the...

lilies17 and the transformation (of the year)—the idea of springtime, when lilies bloom. So this may be an interpretation rather than a departure from the Hebrew. And there may be eschatological implications. For the idea of the transformation of the earth in spring connotes the image-complex of Passover, new creation and resurrection, for which lilies are an ancient symbol. Another example is the rendering of the heading על־הגתית (MT 8, 81, 84) as ὑπὲρ τῶν ληνῶν, Concerning the winepresses
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