Psalm 78 Exegetical Issues
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Exegetical Issues Video
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 78
- In these verses, translations differ regarding the grammatical number of the suffixes (singular vs plural). In the Masoretic Text, the pronominal suffixes are grammatically singular, but not all translations render the suffixes in this way.
- The identity of his adversaries in the first line and them in the second refer to the same group, but the identity of this group is not immediately clear.
- Translations differ on whether זֶה functions as a demonstrative pronoun or a relative pronoun in this verse.