Psalms 152-155

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The Psalms 152-155 are extra-canonical Psalms , in the Syrian Peshitta have survived. Two of them (Ps 154 and 155) can also be found in the great scroll of the Psalms from the Dead Sea in Hebrew . Together with Psalm 151 they form the so-called "five apocryphal psalms".

Psalm 152

Title: "Of David when he fought the lion and the wolf that stole a sheep from his flock" . This text survived only in the peschitta. It may have been originally written in Hebrew . It was probably written in Israel in the Hellenistic period . It is kept in a non-rabbinical style.

Psalm 153

Title: "Of David, when he thanked God, who saved him from the lion and the wolf, and he slew them both." The origin and origin of the thanksgiving song are to be determined as in Psalm 152.

Psalm 154

The psalm is transmitted in the Syrian Peshitta and in the great psalm scroll 11Q5. The main theme is the invitation to “join in with what is good and perfect in order to glorify the Most High” . The psalm contains a reference to community feasts as the Essenes were typical: "And at their eating saturation should be in the truth, as well as in their drinking if they do it together" .

Psalm 155

The psalm has been handed down in the Syrian peshitta and in the great psalm scroll. Thematically, there is a great similarity to Psalm 22 . In the absence of special features, neither the time nor the place of origin can be given.

See also

literature

  • Herrie F. van Rooy: Studies On The Syriac Apocryphical Psalms (PDF; 951 kB). (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 7), Oxford University Press: Oxford 1999.
  • William Wright: Some Apocryphal Psalms in Syriac , Proceedings of the Society of Biblical archeology, 9 (1887), pp. 257-266.

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