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Old Testament Essays

versión On-line ISSN 2312-3621
versión impresa ISSN 1010-9919

Old testam. essays vol.24 no.2 Pretoria  2011

 

David of the Psalters: MT Psalter, LXX Psalter and 11QPsa Psalter

 

 

Hulisani Ramantswana

UNISA

Correspondence

 

 


ABSTRACT

The focus of this paper is on the Davidic figure as presented in the Psalters-the MT Psalter, LXX Psalter and 11QPsa Psalter. David of the MT Psalter is the same figure we encounter in the LXX Psalter and 11QPsa Psalter; however, it is David as he is remembered uniquely in each of the Editorial Variant Texts. The MT Psalter is compared with the LXX Psalter and 11QPsa Psalter. Contra Wilson, who argues that the MT Psalter deemphasises David when compared to the other textual witnesses, I argue that the MT Psalter is also susceptible to be read as a highly Davidic book. David is an important character in the Psalter and is the last of Israel's legendary figures mentioned within the bodies of the psalms. In the final analysis, the MT Psalter concludes with David, the sweet psalmist of Israel, remembered for directing Israel in the worship of Yahweh through unconditional praise, a praise resounding from every corner of the cosmos, Yahweh's temple.


 

 

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Correspondence:
Hulisani Ramantswana
Department of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
University of South Africa
P.O. Box 392, Unisa, 0003
South Africa
Email: ramanh@unisa.ac.za

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