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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 [...]
Posted in Religious Scholars, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Aage Bentzen, Ancient Israel, Deification, Israelite New Year's Festival, Messiah, Psalms Comments closed
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 [...]
Posted in Scripture, Temple Also tagged Aage Bentzen, Creation, Davidic monarch, Israelite New Year's Festival, King, Messiah, Psalms, Sigmund Mowinckel Comments closed
The Psalms: Hymn Book of the Temple
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 [...]
Posted in Scripture, Temple Also tagged A.R. Johnson, High Priest, Melchizedek, Psalms, Sigmund Mowinckel, Temple Comments closed
The Incomparable Power of God’s Salvation: Musings on Psalm 18