| Abstrakt: |
Book 4 contains a significant number of praise psalms. This highlights a significant shift in comparison with the end of Book 3 where Pss 88–89 end on a decidedly downbeat note. This article reads Book 4 as a coherent compilation containing three main blocks (Pss 90–92, 93–100, 101–6). It uses praise as a means of reshaping the perspective of the community, helping them to understand the importance of Yahweh's reign and so to close the Book with a prayer to be gathered from the nations. As such, the community's situation has not changed in comparison to the end of Book 3, but praise has enabled them to understand how and why they can make this appeal. Praise is rhetorically shaped to bring the community to see this, drawing on history, creation, wisdom, and Torah as elements that frame and so interpret Yahweh's reign. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
