Foreign Yahwistic Singers in the Jerusalem Temple?: Evidence from Psalm 92

Psalm 92 is generally approached as a wisdom, royal, or hymnic song composed for the Sabbath liturgy. The present study, however, reveals that behind this ostensible meaning, this psalm alludes to the integration of foreign Yahwistic singers among the clergy at the Jerusalem temple and the oppositio...

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Main Author: Amzalag, Nisim 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2017]
In: Scandinavian journal of the Old Testament
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 213-235
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
RC Liturgy
Further subjects:B Ezrahites
B non-Israelite yahwism
B second temple liturgy
B Asaphites
B complex antiphony
B Psalm 92
B Bible. Psalmen 92
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Summary:Psalm 92 is generally approached as a wisdom, royal, or hymnic song composed for the Sabbath liturgy. The present study, however, reveals that behind this ostensible meaning, this psalm alludes to the integration of foreign Yahwistic singers among the clergy at the Jerusalem temple and the opposition that it provoked among some of their Israelite peers. Though this reality remains visible in the linear reading of the psalm, its full expression emerges only after the psalm is set in a cross-responsa fashion, a mode of complex antiphonal performance that mixes two voices singing the same text in the inverse order of its verses.
ISSN:0901-8328
Contains:Enthalten in: Scandinavian journal of the Old Testament
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/09018328.2017.1333764