If I Forget You, Jerusalem! - Studies on the Old Testament - Niels Peter Lemche
7. The Introduction to David's Psalms: New Reflections on Psalm 2
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).
Description
In continuation of the discussion about the origins of Ps 2 in the previous chapter, the discussion here centres on the issue of the function of Ps 2 as an introduction in combination with Ps 1 to the collection of psalms. The key issue centres around the address at the beginning of Ps 2 to the king as messiah. Maybe it is a link to the idea that the collection should be read as a messianic collection.