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The Psalms in the Ritual: Aage Bentzen, Part Two

In my last post, I provided a look at Aage Bentzen’s King and Messiah, focusing on his review and summarization of research on the psalms and how some scholars began to see in them a pattern that seemed to define an ancient Israelite ritual that involved the king’s participation in a ritualized drama that portrayed [...]
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King and Messiah in the Psalms: From the Work of Aage Bentzen

For a few decades in the beginning-to-middle of the 20th century, a very interesting approach to looking at the Psalms of the Old Testament was launched, especially in Europe.  This approach, unfortunately, has fallen somewhat out of favor, and perhaps never fully caught on here in the U.S.  The approach I am referring to is [...]
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