“Be exalted, o God, above the heavens!” (Psalm 108:6) - studies in the Book of Psalms and its reception. Presented to Phil J. Botha on his 65th birthday

Abstract

A new psalm had to be composed for new circumstances. It made use of a well-known oracle of God, but in a new political, social, religious, and/or historical context, that oracle had a new message. In a context of praise, it opened a perspective to the future. It emphasized in a new way that God had to bring about the new dispensation, and that he would. They gave the faithful a new historical and cosmological perspective