King, Messiah, and the Reign of God: Revisiting the Royal Psalms and the Shape of the Psalter

Abstract

It is over twenty years since the author's early work that suggested certain royal psalms have been employed editorially in the shaping of the Psalter. That initial statement in Editing of the Hebrew Psalter was followed by an expanded discussion in The Use of the Royal at the 'Seams' of the Psalter, reiterated in a broader context in The Shape of the Book of Psalms and further developed in Shaping the Psalter: A Consideration of Editorial Linkage in the Book of Psalms. This chapter presents a brief restatement of the thesis offered in these works. It then discusses some of the issues that have been raised in the intervening years, and offers new insights along the way. recognition of two segments of the Psalter distinguished by methods of arrangement and representing two significantly different periods of redaction has been generally accepted among commentators. Keywords: Hebrew; Psalter; royal

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