Abstract:
The following exposition goes back to my lecture, ‘The Ways of YHWH and the Ways of the
supplicant in the fifth and last Psalter of David’, at the convention, ‘The Torah in the psalms
and the prophecy’, held at Munich on 13–14 July 2007. The first part of the lecture, which dealt
with the composition of the fifth Psalter of David, has appeared in an excursus (on the concept
of the fifth Psalter of David) in the psalm commentary by Erich Zenger and me (Author). It was
for this reason that the second part, which dealt with the Way-motif in Psalm 119 in the fifth
Psalter of David, was extended to the current subject of the article.
INTRADISCIPLINARY AND/OR INTERDISCIPLINARY IMPLICATIONS : The psalms and the Torah belong to
two different parts of the Hebrew canon. This means that the intertextual relations between
them rest on the interdisciplinary relationship between the two corpuses. The connections
between Psalm 119 and David’s fifth Psalter relate with the autonomous theologies of the fifth
Psalter of David (Ps 138–145) and the final Hallel (Ps 146–150). Psalm 119 had both groups of
psalms in front of it, and it respected the graduated psalm endings or rather the final redactions
in both instances. The implication for the redaction study of the psalms is
