‘I am like a green olive tree’ : the Wisdom context of Psalm 52

dc.contributor.authorBotha, Philippus Jacobus
dc.contributor.emailphil.botha@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-28T08:58:09Z
dc.date.available2013-10-28T08:58:09Z
dc.date.issued2013-07-04
dc.description.abstractThe article revisits the thesis of Walter Beyerlin from 1980 that Psalm 52 is a paraeneticdidactic Wisdom poem from the late Persian period. Beyerlin reached his conclusion from a comparison of Psalm 52 with post-exilic Wisdom psalms such as Psalms 37, 49, and 73. The direct literary influence that Psalm 52 received from the book of Proverbs and the motifs it shares with Jeremiah 9 are investigated here, since the author contends that the Wisdom influence on the Psalm was even greater than Beyerlin had envisaged. The article comes to the conclusion that the author(s) of the Psalm attempted to compose a psalm by establishing a network of allusions to a corpus of authoritative texts, inter alia, the Wisdom psalms. The end product is a brilliant composition which interprets the teaching of Proverbs for the needs of a group of Jewish believers who probably lived at the end of the Persian period.en_US
dc.description.librarianam2013en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.hts.org.zaen_US
dc.identifier.citationBotha P.J., 2013, ‘“I am like a green olive tree”: The Wisdom context of Psalm 52’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 69(1), Art. #1962, 8 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v69i1.1962en_US
dc.identifier.issn0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.4102/hts.v69i1.1962
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/32191
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAOSIS Open Journalsen_US
dc.rights© 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_US
dc.subjectPsalm 52en_US
dc.subjectTeaching of Proverbsen_US
dc.subjectJeremiah 9en_US
dc.title‘I am like a green olive tree’ : the Wisdom context of Psalm 52en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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