{"id":61056,"date":"2019-08-14T13:30:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T10:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=61056"},"modified":"2023-03-07T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T12:44:17","slug":"davids-victory-psalm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/davids-victory-psalm\/","title":{"rendered":"David\u2019s Victory Psalm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"61056","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"285","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The warrior-king shows himself as the sweet singer of Israel","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">22:1 \u201cAnd David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day the Lord rescued him from the clutches of his enemies and from the clutches of Saul\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commentary: It was a common literary practice in ancient Israel to place a long poem or song (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><\/i><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shirah<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) at or near the end of a narrative book &#8212; compare Jacob\u2019s Testament, Genesis 49, and the Song of Moses, Deuteronomy 32. In the case of the Book of Samuel, David\u2019s victory Psalm and Hannah\u2019s psalm, respectively a song of the male warrior\u2019s triumph and a song contextualized as an expression of maternal triumph, enclose the large narrative like bookends, and there is even some inter-echoing of language between the two poems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These long concluding poems were presumably selected by the editor or composer of the book from a variety of texts available in the literary tradition and then ascribed to a principal character of the story. There is, of course, a persistent biblical notion of David the poet as well as of David the warrior-king, and the idea that he actually composed this poem, though unlikely, cannot be categorically dismissed. In any case, most scholars (Albright, Cross and Friedman, Robertson) detect relatively archaic language in the poem and date it to the tenth century, David\u2019s time. The archaic character of the language makes the meaning of many terms conjectural. Even in the ancient period, some of the older locutions may already have been obscure to the scribes, who seem to have scrambled many phrases in transmission; but in contrast to the confident practice of many biblical scholars, caution in presuming to reconstruct the \u201cprimitive\u201d text is prudent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It should be noted that this same poem occurs in the Book of Psalms as Psalm 18, with a good many minor textual variants. In several instances, the reading in Psalm 18 seems preferable, but here, too, methodological caution is necessary: Psalm 18 appears to be a secondary version of the poem, and its editor at least in some cases may have clarified obscurities through revision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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