Psalm 20
The 20th psalm (according to Greek counting the 19th) is a psalm of David and belongs to the series of royal psalms. It was sung for a king of Judea . Due to content and semantic similarities, a literary dependence on the Amherst 63 papyrus can be assumed.
structure
A possible structure looks like this:
- Verses 1-6: Prayer for the King: good wishes.
- Verses 7-10: Assurances in prophetic style: proclaiming a divine oracle.
subjects
Name theology
The Old Testament scholar Hermann Gunkel emphasizes the role of the name of God in his psalm commentary . Finally, the psalmist does not speak directly of the deity, but of the name of the deity (verses 2, 6 and 8). The naming of names plays a special role in the Old Testament: With the pronouncement of the name YHWH, raise your hands in prayer and call on him (cf. also Ps 63,5 EU and Ps 116,17 EU ), the blessing , the prayer begins and the hymn - knowing God's name means "having religion".
Evaluation of victims
Together with Psalm 66, the psalm shows a consistently positive evaluation of material sacrifices (verse 4) - unlike, for example, Psalm 51 without a critical tendency.
Web links
- Psalm 20 in the standard translation , the Luther Bible and other translations from bibleserver.com
- Psalm 20 in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) on bibelwissenschaft.de
- Public domain sheet music of settings for Psalm 20 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann Gunkel : The Psalms . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 6 1986, p. 82.
- ↑ Hermann Gunkel: The Psalms . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 6 1986, p. 83.
- ^ Christiane Radebach-Huonker: Sacrifice terminology in the Psalter . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, p. 103.