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The choice of Yahweh as refuge makes a unique and creative contribution to an emerging direction in Psalms study: the shape and shaping of the Psalter. Building especially on the work of Gerald Wilson, James Mays, Klaus Seybold and Gerald Sheppard, Creach provides an abundance of helpful data and advances the discussion significantly with his judicious interpretation of the root hsh (“to seek...

Descriptions of the Righteous Finally, many participle forms and third-person forms describe the righteous person’s relationship to Yahweh. As stated earlier, all occurrences of the ḥāsâ participle are substantival and some have this function. For example, the blessed state of those who seek refuge in Yahweh is related in Ps. 2:12: ‘Happy are all who seek refuge in him’ (see also Pss. 32:10; 33:18; 34:23; 37:9; 84:13; 125:1; 147:11). In the same way Ps. 34:9 states the same idea with a third-person
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