If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche

If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche

6. Psalm 2: Between Past and Future

If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche

Niels Peter Lemche [+-]
University of Copenhagen
Niels Peter Lemche, has been publishing in the field of Old Testament studies for fifty years. He has been both Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, from 1978 to 1986 and Professor of Theology at the University of Copenhagen from 1987 to 2013. He is the founder of the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, and a member of the board of the Copenhagen International Seminar (Routledge). He has recently edited (in co-operation with Dr. Jim West) Jeremiah in History and Tradition (Routledge, 2019).

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Does Ps 2 have its background in the time of King David, or does it belong to the times of the Ptolemaic Empire? Or perhaps sometime in between? We clearly find elements of the Egyptian royal ideology in Ps 2, but also of other ideas about royalty prevalent in Western Asia. In light of the present rewriting of the history of Israel the psalm is hardly from the time og a non-existent Israelite empire in the 10 th century BCE. It more likely belongs to the Ptolemaic period. Then issue arises: Is the psalm messianic?

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Lemche, Niels Peter. 6. Psalm 2: Between Past and Future. If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. May 2024. ISBN 9781800504363. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=44797. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.44797. May 2024

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