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What is the context of Psalm 46? 

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This suggests that the psalm has three stanzas.


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.


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.


It is argued that a contextual and intertextual reading of Psalm 118 will act as a counterbalance to arbitrary decisions on the interpretation of the psalm.


This article challenges the common understanding of Psalm 23 as being the song of an individual faithful Israelite.


It argues that Psalm 120 is a literary composition in which the thanksgiving and lament are deliberately juxtaposed, and in this sequence, to express a sense of the tragic.


This didactic type of psalm was most probably the product of the hokmd stratum of Israelite society 7).


The psalm belongs together with Psalm 24; these two psalms may well have formed part of a liturgy going back to David's reign.


Psalm 22 represents an important development in the study of the sudden change of mood in the lament psalms.