The Book of Psalms by Robert Alter

Author:Robert Alter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Published: 2007-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

25. They saw Your processions. Without transition, the poem jumps from the victory to a ceremonial march on Mount Zion.

28. Benjamin, Judah, Zebulon, Naphtali. This brief catalog of tribes is another link to the Song of Deborah. Benjamin, Zebulon, and Naphtali are mentioned in Judges 5 as tribes that joined in the battle, and Judah needs to be included here as the tribe of Judean kings. Perhaps Benjamin’s “holding sway” records a recollection, in the interests of celebrating national unity, of the first king of Israel—Saul—who was a Benjaminite. Benjamin is “little” as the youngest of Jacob’s sons.

raiment. The translation reads riqmatam for the obscure rigmatam in the received text.

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