Psalm 87

The 87th psalm (according to Greek counting the 86th) is a psalm of the sons of Korah and belongs to the series of hymns on Zion . The psalm creates difficulties for exegesis . Due to its irregular meter and unusual beginning, it is even referred to as a "fragment".

Change attempts

In order to undo the metrical damage to the Psalm, which was caused by later copyists, there were some attempts at conversion:

Gustav Bickell	1		2			3	4th	6th	5		7th
Julius Wellhausen	1		2			3	4ab	6th	5	4c	7th
Frants Buhl	1	5c	2			3	4th	5	6th		7th
Willy Staerk	1	5b	2			3	6th	4c, 4a, b	5		7th
Hermann Gunkel	1a		2	1b	5c	7th	3	6th	4c, 4a, 4b		5b

Dating

The psalm is usually dated to the Persian period, since the psalm must have been written at a time when Israel must have had a large extent as far as Ethiopia . Friedrich Baethgen and Hans Keßler date the psalm to the pre-exilic period due to the mention of the city of Babel .

literature

• Corinna Körting, Zion in the Psalms (2006)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Gunkel, Die Psalmen ( ⁶ 1986), 380

Web links

Commons : Psalm 87  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Psalm 87 in the standard translation , the Luther Bible and other translations from bibleserver.com
• Psalm 87 in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) on bibelwissenschaft.de
• Sheet music in the public domain for settings of Psalm 87 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)