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- Title
The Psalms of Solomon and the New Testament: Intertextuality and the Need for a Re-Evaluation.
- Authors
Embry, Brad
- Abstract
The Jewish Pseudepigraphic work Psalms of Solomon (Pss. Sol.), which contains one of the first examples of the phrase ‘Lord's Anointed’ outside the New Testament, is commonly used in christological discussions centering on Christ's self-perception. Often Pss. Sol.'s ‘Christology’ is misinterpreted by New Testament scholarship, which anachronistically colors the messianic motif in Pss. Sol. with New Testament categories. Pseudepigrapha specialists, moreover, contribute to the problem by suggesting that the document is something of an ad hoc composition. As a result, the messianic motif in the document is detached from the rest of the document. This article argues that, in fact, the document presents a cohesive thesis, and that the messianic motif functions in a particular role within that thesis. As such, it is suggested that the messianic motif in Pss. Sol. is comprehensible only within the purview of this central thesis. Yet even then, when they live in the land of their enemies, I shall not despise them, nor shall I abhor them unto their destruction thereby breaking my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. I shall remember for them the first covenant that I brought them up from the land of Egypt before the eyes of all nations to be their God. I am the Lord. These are the statutes, the judgments and the Law that the Lord established between himself and the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai through the hand of Moses.
- Subjects
APOCRYPHAL books (Old Testament); NEW Testament; CHRISTOLOGY; HISTORY of Judaism, to 70 A.D.; INTERTEXTUALITY in the Bible; MESSIAH; HEBREW poetry; DE Jonge, Marinus
- Publication
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 2002, Vol 13, Issue 2, p99
- ISSN
0951-8207
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/095182070201300201