Psalms: Composition & Reception

Another interesting volume is The Book of Psalms: Composition and Reception.
Written by leading experts in the field as well as some younger scholars, The Book of Psalms: Composition and Reception offers a wide-ranging treatment of the main aspects of Psalms study. The almost 30 essays consist of two overall sections. The first section contains studies [...]

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Fr. Reardon on Psalm 93

The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty;
the LORD is robed in majesty and armed with strength;
indeed, the world is established, firm and secure.
Your throne was established long ago;
you are from all eternity.
The seas [...]

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E. J. Young and Enthronement

In Appendix III of Volume I of his commentary on The Book of Isaiah, Edward J. Young looks at “The Festival of Enthronement” and interracts with Sigmund Mowinkel and von Rad and I must confess I find his objections wanting. As I demonstrated in “Yahweh is king!” the kingship of Yahweh was celebrated at the [...]

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Calming the storm and the kingship of Jesus

On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so [...]

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Yahweh is king!

As I noted earlier, Psalm 95 was used as part of the liturgy at the feast of Tabernacles and this Psalm, together with Psalms 93, 96-99 are know as the enthronement Psalms. They expound the themes of Yahweh as king hence:
Psalm 93:1, 2
The Lord is king! He is robed in majesty.
Indeed, the Lord is robed [...]

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Theology of the Psalms

You can read Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology entry on “Psalms, Theology of” online

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Psalm 93

You will need to access this via JSTOR but it is worth it.
Jefferson, H. G. (1952) “Psalm 93″, Journal of Biblical Literature, 71(3) pp. 155-160
She concludes (amongst other things) that its relationship to Ugaritic literature favours a pre-exilic date, furthermore Deutero-Isaiah did not write the psalm but he may have known it owing to [...]

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Enthronement, Isaiah and New Exodus

I was asked recently:
Just out of interest, how are the enthronement psalms and Isaiah 40+ related to the new-exodus motif?
Below is my reply. It is in a very embryonic form I admit. This will form the basis of a future post when I get the time.
The details need to be fleshed out and an [...]

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Liturgical Aspects in Enthronement Psalms

Granted it is a little dated, but Walter G. Williams’ article, “Liturgical Aspects in Enthronement Psalms”, published in the Journal of Bible and Religion is great!

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Vos on the enthronement psalms

The following is taken from Geerhardus Vos’ The Eschatology of the Psalter:
The theocentric character of Psalter-eschatology appears also in this that it is prevailingly kingdom-eschatology. By this is meant a form of statement representing Jehovah as becoming, or revealing, Himself in the last crisis the victorious King of Israel. Certain Psalms may be called specific [...]

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