Keeping Company in the Psalms: Ethics and Exegesis

Megan Daffern

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Pages:: 102–122

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004505490_008

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There is a tight semantic field of words for “righteousness” in the Psalms which occurs at the beginnings and ends of psalm texts; the occurrences are statistically significant. This essay begins by defining and analysing this semantic domain and then surveying the positioning of these lexemes. This highlights particular texts where one psalm ends, and the next begins, with such words (Psalms 32 and 33; Psalms 71 and 72; and Psalms 142 and 143). Examining the connections between these three pairs of texts leads to conclusions about the ethical content of these psalms and the richness that their canonical positioning adds to the exegesis of the texts. Thus the exegetical methods showcased here combine the application of linguistic semantics with canonical-critical concerns, while the semantic field in view is that of the ethically exemplary type. This leads to an exploration of the closeness of persons as an ethical influence, as well as the closeness of texts as an exegetical influence. It opens the way to further investigations of opening and closing verses of the Psalms, in particular laying out the question whether the combination of such ethical concerns approached by these methods highlights an editorial layer in the redaction of the Psalter.

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The Exegetical and the Ethical

The Bible and the Academy in the Public Square. Essays for the Occasion of Professor John Barton’s 70th Birthday

Series: Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 197

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004505490

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 10 Mar 2022

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- Biblical Studies
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  - Ethics & Moral Philosophy

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