Psalms : Volume 2 (Teach the Text Commentary Series)

Psalms 73-150

C. Hassell Bullock, Mark L. Strauss, John Walton

• Publisher: Baker Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780801092398
• eBook ISBN: 9781493411795
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Bibles

The Teach the Text Commentary Series utilizes the best of biblical scholarship to provide the information a pastor needs to communicate the text effectively. The carefully selected preaching units and focused commentary allow pastors to quickly grasp the big idea and key themes of each passage of Scripture. Each unit of the commentary includes the big idea and key themes of the passage and sections dedicated to understanding, teaching, and illustrating the text.

Notes

Psalm 73

1. See Bullock, Encountering, 77–79.

2. Hossfeld and Zenger, Psalms 2, 224–26.

3. See Bullock, Encountering, 200–212.

4. Using Scott’s list of wisdom vocabulary (Way of Wisdom, 121–22; also Bullock, Encountering, 204), the common wisdom terms are quite replete: “understand” (bin, 73:17); “stupid” (ba‘ar, 73:22; NIV: “senseless”); “to think” (hshb, 73:16; NIV: “tried”); “to desire” (hpts, 73:25); “to know,” “knowledge” (yd‘, 73:11a; de‘ah, 73:11b [NIV: “know”]); “to rebuke” (ykh, 73:14; NIV: “punishments”); “heart” (lebab, 73:7 [NIV: “imaginations”], 13); “trouble” (‘amal, 73:5; NIV: “burdens”); “counsel” (‘etsah, 73:24); “wicked” (resha‘im, 73:3).

5. Hossfeld and Zenger, Psalms 2, 225–26.

6. Walter Brueggemann and Miller, “Psalm 73,” 45–56, esp. 63.

7. For the prophetic elements of the Asaph psalms, see 50:7–15, 17b–23; 75:2–5; 81:6–16; for the historical, see 74:1; 77:20; 78:52; 79:13; 80:1.

8. See Bullock, Encountering, 76–79.

9. The rhetorical voice of the Psalms is like the voice of an excellent choir when the individual voices become the corporate voice of the choir. A good choir director will emphasize that it is not the individual voices that should be heard but the sum total of the individual voices that make up the “choral” voice. The titles of the psalms, especially “to/for David,” are among the individual voices that blend into the rhetorical voice of the Psalms, as well as the placement of psalms within the book, plus the distinctive and interrelated vocabulary of the psalms. All of these are contributors to the rhetorical voice. The difference between the choir and the Psalms, however, is that we have to be concerned about two “listenings”: the individual voices—which is primary—and then the blend of those voices in order to hear the rhetorical voice.

10. Hakham, Psalms, 2:130.

11. Hakham, Psalms, 2:130n4.

12. Anderson, Psalms 73–150, 533–34.

13. Hakham, Psalms, 2:137.

14. In private correspondence John Walton suggests that the word “glory” is an adverb rather than a noun. In this case it would refer to an anticipated acquittal by God (lqh) “honorably” (see 18:16, where the verb “took” [lqh] is used similarly). The following question, “Whom have I in heaven but you?” (73:25a), sounds very much like Job’s contention that he had a “witness . . . in heaven” (Job 16:19).

15. Anderson, Psalms 73–150, 535–36. See also von Rad’s statement on the afterlife in Old Testament Theology, 406–7.

16. Anderson, Psalms 73–150,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Sidebars
• Welcome to the Teach the Text Commentary Series
• Introduction to the Teach the Text Commentary Series
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Psalm 73
• Psalm 74
• Psalm 75
• Psalm 76
• Psalm 77
• Psalm 78
• Psalm 79
• Psalm 80
• Psalm 81
• Psalm 82
• Additional Insights
• Psalm 83
• Psalm 84
• Psalm 85
• Psalm 86
• Additional Insights
• Psalm 87
• Psalm 88
• Psalm 89
• Psalm 90
• Psalm 91
• Psalm 92
• Psalm 93
• Psalm 94
• Psalm 95
• Psalm 96
• Psalm 97
• Psalm 98
• Psalm 99
• Psalm 100
• Additional Insights
• Psalm 101
• Psalm 102
• Psalm 103
• Psalm 104
• Additional Insights
• Psalm 105
• Psalm 106
• Psalm 107
• Psalm 108
• Psalm 109
• Additional Insights
• Psalm 110
• Additional Insights
• Psalm 111
• Psalm 112
• Psalm 113
• Additional Insights
• Psalm 114
• Psalm 115
• Psalm 116
• Psalm 117
• Psalm 118
• Psalm 119
• Psalm 120
• Additional Insights
• Psalm 121
• Psalm 122
• Psalm 123
• Psalm 124
• Psalm 125
• Psalm 126
• Psalm 127
• Psalm 128
• Psalm 129
• Psalm 130
• Psalm 131
• Psalm 132
• Psalm 133
• Psalm 134
• Psalm 135
• Psalm 136
• Psalm 137
• Psalm 138
• Additional Insights
• Psalm 139
• Psalm 140
• Psalm 141
• Psalm 142
• Psalm 143
• Psalm 144
• Psalm 145
• Psalm 146
• Psalm 147
• Psalm 148
• Psalm 149
• Psalm 150
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index
• Back Ad
• Back Cover