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Disagreement on the interpretation of the Psalms, of which there are many, arise in large part from their apparent lack of context. Should they be treated as individual units? Or read together? In this brilliant study, Michael D. Goulder treats the Psalms contextually, examining, in particular, the Psalms of the Sons of Korah.

ritual of a human scapegoat driven from the community for a day. It stands in conscious contrast to 89, whose links with it I have already noted. 89:12, ‘Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name,’ suggests that 89A came not from Dan but from the near-by, and much smaller, sanctuary at Tabor. Perhaps the Danite priests moved down to Tabor after the loss of Dan and Naphtali in the 730’s and took the hymn into their collection then. It is a splendid climax to the week’s celebrations, and was welcomed and
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