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Title: Psalm 118 and Form Criticism
Author(s): BOOIJ, Thijs
Journal: Biblica
Volume: 96    Issue: 3   Date: 2015   
Pages: 351-374
DOI: 10.2143/BIB.96.3.3183426

Abstract :
Psalm 118 was recited in the time of Nehemiah. The speaker in the first person singular passages is Israel's representative. The psalm, a communal song of thankfulness, belongs to a group of texts related to Succoth (Psalms 65; 66; 67; 98; 107; 124; 129; Isaiah 12; 25,1-5). These texts, dating from the later post-exilic period, do not constitute a welldelineated literary genre. Psalm 118 and Isaiah 12; 25,1-5, however, constitute a special category. Psalm 118,24 refers to Succoth as the time when YHWH judges the world and decides on the nation's well-being (v. 25) for the year to come.


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