The Deuteronomist’s Psalter

Almost twelve months ago I noted that the uniting of Pss. 1 & 2 is rather deuteronomistic in “Pss. 1 & 2 and the Deuteronomist” and over the next few months I wish to explore this further. Stay tuned!

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Psalm 78 and the Deuteronomist

The whole of Ps. 78 is replete with a Deuteronomistic flavour, especially vv. 60-72:
He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the tent he had set up among men.
He sent the ark of his might into captivity,
his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
He [...]

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Dtr & Pss

The more I think about the Deuteronomist and the Psalter the more I start finding relationships. Hopefully soon I will have the time to set out a coherent argument but in the meantime I will quote Mowinckel to whet your appetites.
Now even in 2 Sam. 6 the saga-writer has evidently described the festival on the [...]

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The King as Exemplar

A review of Jamie A. Grant’s rather interesting looking book entitled The King as Exemplar: The Function of Deuteronomy’’s Kingship Law in the Shaping of the Book of Psalms can be found online.
It can be previewed here.

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Pss. 1 & 2 and the Deuteronomist

I have been thinking a great deal recently about the deuteronomistic history and one thing that did strike me was that the uniting of Pss. 1 & 2 is rather deuteronomistic, cf. Deut. 17:18-20. Indeed Ps. 1 is very deuteronomistic in and of itself, cf. Joshua 1:7, 8.
Psalm 1:1-3
Blessed is the man
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1 Kings 8

In 1 Kings 8 we read about the Ark of the Covenant being brought into the Temple during the reign of Solomon. This took place during the feast of Tabernacles as we are told in verse 2, “All the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival in the [...]

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