By Michael D. Goulder
ISBN-10: 1850758662
ISBN-13: 9781850758662
Book V of the Psalter (Psalms 107-150) divides into 3, with the Songs of the Ascents (120-134) because the valuable part, and the 1st and 3rd devices following parallel buildings (historical, Davidic, alphabetical, Hallel psalms). The devices are all compositions of the go back interval: 107-119 for the reconstruction of the Temple, 120-134 for Nehemiah's wall-building, 135-150 for Ezra's project. Psalms 120-134 persist with the episodes of Nehemiah's 'memoir', so as. All 3 teams exhibit proof of evening-morning alternation, and have been meant for festal use: 107-118 on the Passover of Ezra 6, 120-134 on the Tabernacles of Nehemiah 12, 135-150 at Ezra's Tabernacles (Neh. 8).
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13. Williamson, Ezra, Nehemiah, pp. xxvii-xxviii. 14. Blenkinsopp, Ezra-Nehemiah, pp. 47, 210, and passim. 32 The Psalms of the Return (Book V, Psalms 107-150) psaltery and harp, and his tongue will talk of God's righteousness all the day long (vv. 22-24); so he is unlikely to be a private individual. John Eaton has been at pains to describe the king's duty to give testimony;15 partly to God's mighty deeds of old, no doubt, but partly also to his current mercies. In this respect he is rather like a President of the United States giving his state-of-the-Union address: a comforting blend of realism, rhetoric and religiosity.
Cf. 15, 22). There is accordingly fairly widespread agreement among commentators that the Nehemiah Testimonies divide into episodes which can be delimited both by topic and by the opening and closing formulae. There is also broad agreement that the first part of the Nehemiah Testimonies follows a chronological order: the report in Susa, Nehemiah's petition, his survey of the city by night, the building of the walls, the repopulation problem (though there may be some doubt over details in ch.
2And the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. 3And I said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? 4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. 5And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
Psalms of the Return, Psalms 107-150 : Studies in the Psalter, IV Library Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies by Michael D. Goulder
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