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21 Cards in this Set
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Dominant theme in the Psalms
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1. God is truly God
2. (McCann) "The Lord Reigns" |
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Messianic Psalms: What do we mean by messianic prophecy?
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1. Soteriological - God is working to save His people
2. Eschatalogical - refers to future/end age when Messiah will reign 3. Apocalyptic - eruption or breaking in of God into the normal chain of events 4. Messianic (narrow sense) - Messiah is clearly in view or his reign is described |
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What are messianic psalms?
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Two major types: royal and servant
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Three categories of mesianic psalms:
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typological, typico-prohetic, purely prophetic
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Typological messianic psalms
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show correspondence/escalation in type
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Typico-Prophetic messianic psalms
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"presses beyond the psalmists experience"
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Purely prophetic messianic psalms
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"no immediate fulfillment, points only to Christ." (Longman thinks there is no such thing, Long thinks there might be.)
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All Psalms are in a sense
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Messianic
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Imprecatory means
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calling down of curses on enemy
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Proposed solutions for problem of imprecatory psalms
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1. language of the heart
2. lower standard of morality |
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Genre considerations for imprecatory pslams
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1. typical ancient and near Eastern rhetoric
2. this is poetry, not prose |
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Inductive observations about the imprecatory psalms
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1. Pronounced against those who are against God
2. Focus on God's name 3. Pronounced against the incorrigible 4. Aimed at proving God's justice 5. Always seems to be a sense of just deserts 6. The rejoicing is in the Lord's justice and salvation |
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Martin's conclusions on the Imprecatory Psalms:
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1. expressions of an OT saint longing for vindication of God's righteousness
2. utterances of zeal for God and His kingdom, especially coming from David as God's representative 3. Expression of Psalmist's abhorance of sin 4. Prophetic teachings as to attitude of God toward sin and impenatent and persistant sinners |
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Corpus of Biblical Wisdom books
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Proverbs,Ecclesiastes,Job (the big three), + Song of Songs, Lamentations
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Corpus of Aprocryphal Wisdom books
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Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach), Wisdom of Solomon (others?)
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Character of the Wisdom books
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1. Prudential (practical insights, short pithy sayings, aphorism: thought in easily memorizable form)
2. Speculative (wisdom without sufficient evidence - as in Job, Ecclesiastes) |
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Kidner speaks of the Prudential AND Providential nature of the Psalms when he says:
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"That which we can see clearly and that which we can see at a distance and not so clearly..."
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Give examples of different genres of Psalms (imprecatory, messianic, etc.)
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Messianic: Psalm 69, 22, 110
Imprecatory: 35, 58, 69 |
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True or False: The majority of the Davidic Psalms are in books 3 & 4 of the Psalter
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False
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Proverbs 10:1 may be classified in Loeth's terms as
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internal? external? complete? incomplete? synonymous? antithetic? synthetic? (know these!)
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Emblamatic parallelism is a subcategory of
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synonymous parallelism
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