Tag Archives: Psalms

The Enthronement of the Son: Musings on Psalm 2

By David Larsen | Published: October 9, 2009
As I promised in my last post, I will be sharing here some of my thoughts after reading Psalm 2.  While my comments will draw from some of the studies I have done recently and commentaries read, the purpose of this post is not to give an in-depth or full commentary on the psalm, but [...]
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The Psalms in the Ritual: Aage Bentzen, Part Two

By David Larsen | Published: April 28, 2009
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

By David Larsen | Published: April 23, 2009
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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The Psalms: Hymn Book of the Temple

By David Larsen | Published: July 24, 2008
In the closing lines of my last post, I cited an intriguing statement by Margaret Barker: “The Psalms were the hymn book of the temple, and in them we glimpse something of the ancient liturgy” (M. Barker, Temple Themes in Christian Worship, p. 137). If this is truly the case, then a careful study of the [...]
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They Shall See His Face

By David Larsen | Published: July 21, 2008
Insights from Margaret Barker’s Temple Themes in Christian Worship: Part V After a rather long tangent looking at the suppression of ancient doctrines and ordinances, I now return to my commentary on Margaret Barker’s work on the themes of the First Temple that show up in later Christian beliefs. This post will focus on Chapter [...]
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