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It is a strategy for sweeping us up from the beginning of the poem in a narrative momentum that invokes but also goes beyond the story of Exodus. In a famous letter to Can Grande once attributed to Dante, this psalm is used to illustrate the fourfold levels of interpreting a sacred text (literal, allegorical, moral, and anagogical or mystic). James Joyce picked up, in a vein of serious parody, the purportedly Dantean view of this psalm, quoting Psalm 114 in Latin in Ulysses. The original intention of the psalmist, however, seems clearly literal&#8211;which is to say, historical&#8211;a celebration of God\u2019s spectacular intervention in history on behalf of the people of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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