Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jerome F. D. Creach
• John T. Strong
• Steven S. Tuell

Titel

The Mortality of the King in Psalm 89 and Israel’s Postexilic Identity

Ist Teil von

• Constituting the Community, 2005, p.237

Ort / Verlag

Penn State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the rabbinic tradition, the story of Moses’ death (Deut 34) created a context in which to deal with questions of mortality, particularly the mortality of leaders like Moses. Sifre Deut 339 records God’s response to Moses’ protest about death: “It (death) is a decree of mine that applies to every mortal.” With this reflection on the death of Moses, the rabbis acknowledged that human leaders, however great or pious, were destined to meet the same end as all humans.¹ Despite the exalted language concerning the king in many psalms (see 2:6–9; 45:6; 89: 35–37), the Psalter in