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What is the context of Psalm 43? 

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30 Jun 1999
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Freedman concludes in this chapter that the eight key words are distributed throughout the psalm so that, while there is little consistency in the distribution from line to line or stanza to stanza, the larger context of the psalm reveals an incredibly detailed and balanced work.
In this article an attempt is made to indicate that there is a covenantal relation underlying Psalm 42 and 43, a covenantal relation which is not institutionally or formally dominated and which is not only group-orientated but also strongly individual-orientated.
According to this viewpoint, the psalm should be interpreted as a direct prophecy of the suffering of Jesus.
This article challenges the common understanding of Psalm 23 as being the song of an individual faithful Israelite.
It is not simply the antiquity of the psalm, however, which has created such interest.
Psalm 39 is a peculiar, late post-exilic wisdom composition which reflects the style of a supplication of a sick person, but actually rather constitutes a meditation on the transitoriness of human life.
Insofar as Jesus is being called “God” by God himself, Psalm 45 confirmed to the author of Hebrews the divinity of Jesus.
In light of recent scholarship, this paper argues that Paul’s apparent misapplication of the psalm is resolved by a proper recognition of the psalm’s typological framework.
The psalm belongs together with Psalm 24; these two psalms may well have formed part of a liturgy going back to David's reign.
This didactic type of psalm was most probably the product of the hokmd stratum of Israelite society 7).