Abstract:
The rhetoric of religious politics in Psalm 2: The rhetorical argumentation strategies of Psalm 2 as a political-cultic poem are explored in order to highlight the function of these strategies, the
exigency and the audience of the initial rhetorical situation. During the
creation process of the psalm, the rhetor must have been influenced by the
royal court or the king himself, reflecting aspects of the evolutionary
process which the Zion theology went through. The rhetor's creation was to
be implemented lively during the inauguration ceremony of the Judean king
as rhetorical action during which the king (as new rhetor), the world rulers
and nations (as universal audience), the Judean audience present at the
political-cultic ceremony, as well as Yahweh were engaged in collaborative
rhetorical action.
