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The Psalter. Book One (PS 1-41)

The Psalter. Book One (PS 1-41)

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Series: Rhetorica Biblica Et Semitica, Book 32

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ISBN10: 904294644X
ISBN13: 9789042946446
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Jun 3 2021
Pages: 637
Weight: 2.55
Height: 1.82 Width: 6.86 Depth: 9.77
Language: English
Like the fifth book, the first book does not merely juxtapose isolatedprayers; the forty-one psalms constituting it form a highly elaboratearchitecture, in accordance with the principle of self-similarity offractals, or following the procedure of mise en abyme.

The book is organised as its second section and even more as the thirdone. The first side of each of these two sections features the king'senemies whose sin consists in persecuting him without reason, with thepsalmist claiming his innocence and faithfulness to the Law. Then thecentre of these sections switches to the second side, where the psalmistbecomes aware of his own sinfulness and inability to keep the Law; heneeds to be instructed in the ways of God, who will forgive him hissins and imprint his Law in his heart. It therefore acts as atransition from the first covenant, the Mosaic covenant of Sinai, to thenew covenant, the one announced by the exilic prophets, which is basedon the forgiveness of sins, on the inner knowledge of the law and on theuniversality of salvation that will attain all nations.

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