Precreation Discourse in Psalms 74 and 77:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Precreation Discourse in Psalms 74 and 77: "
Dennis Sylva

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082878
Doc. No	:	LA126507
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157430111X614754‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Dennis Sylva
Title & Author	:	Precreation Discourse in Psalms 74 and 77: [Article] : Struggling with Chaoskämpfe\ Dennis Sylva
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2011
Volume/ Issue Number	:	18/3-4
Page No	:	244–267
Abstract	:	The way in which Psalms 74 and 77 deal with historical turmoil in the psalmists’ lives is to weave together reflections on the concrete problems being experienced with succinct myths about God’s precreative struggle with chaos: Chaoskämpfe. The cultural intertextural background for these myths is to be found in Near Eastern accounts about the divine battle against chaotic sea gods. Each psalmist tailors this component in ways that fit the theodicy and the basis of appeal for divine intervention in their own lives that they are attempting to construct. In the interplays of these overarching constructions and the roles of the Chaoskämpfe in them the larger functions of the precreative discourses in these psalms are to be found. The way in which Psalms 74 and 77 deal with historical turmoil in the psalmists’ lives is to weave together reflections on the concrete problems being experienced with succinct myths about God’s precreative struggle with chaos: Chaoskämpfe. The cultural intertextural background for these myths is to be found in Near Eastern accounts about the divine battle against chaotic sea gods. Each psalmist tailors this component in ways that fit the theodicy and the basis of appeal for divine intervention in their own lives that they are attempting to construct. In the interplays of these overarching constructions and the roles of the Chaoskämpfe in them the larger functions of the precreative discourses in these psalms are to be found.
Descriptor	:	Chaoskampf
Descriptor	:	precreation discourse
Descriptor	:	Psalm 74
Descriptor	:	Psalm 77
Descriptor	:	Psalms of Asaph
Descriptor	:	socio-rhetorical interpretation
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157430111X614754‬