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Title: The Exodus Tradition and Israelite Psalmody

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 1999

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DOI: 10.1017/S0036930600053473

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Abstract: It is impossible to read the first fifteen chapters of Exodus alongside the royal psalms and Zion hymns in the Psalter without noticing that very different perceptions of Israel's beginnings co-existed in the pre-exilic period. The Moses-Egypt tradition is about a wandering people, deprived of land and status, living under the promise of the protection offered by a nomadic clan-god; whilst the David-Zion tradition, fundamental to so many psalmists, concerns an established nation, a royal state cult which ratifies claims to land and status through its deity ‘housed’ in a Temple. And yet the Exodus tradition is used in a handful of psalms: the question thus arises — what purpose does it serve? Furthermore, why should the psalmists use such an anomalous tradition in this way?

Url: http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0036930600053473

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Authors: Gillingham, Susan

Periodical (Full): Scottish Journal of Theology

Issue: 01

Volume: 52

Pages: 19-46

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