Psalm 70 Exegetical Issues

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Exegetical Issues Video

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Introduction to Exegetical Issues

Presented here are the top three Exegetical Issues that any interpreter of the psalm—whether they’re reading the text in Hebrew or looking at a number of translations—are likely to encounter. These issues usually involve textual criticism, grammar, lexical semantics, verbal semantics, and/or phrase-level semantics, though they sometimes involve higher-level layers as well.

Exegetical Issues for Psalm 70

The superscription of Psalm 70 ends with the Hebrew phrase לְהַזְכִּיר, whose precise meaning is uncertain. Scholars have proposed several interpretations of this phrase, resulting in different understandings of the psalm’s superscription. This exegetical issue examines four possible interpretations and the arguments supporting each one.