Timeline for How can Psalm 132 reference David and imply that it was written by Solomon?
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| Oct 27, 2022 at 8:22 | comment | added | Harel13 | @torahmike and psalms aren't songs or poems? | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 7:28 | comment | added | torahmike | @Harel13 those are a little different. In shir hashirim he is writing a song document and so third person is fine, it's like signing one's name on a document, not strange at all. Referring to oneself by a title also not strange in every context. E.g. if a police officer said "it's not wise to punch a police officer." But referring to oneself in third person by name is always strange. | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 12:08 | comment | added | Tamir Evan | "Yet in Psalm 132 it seems the psalmist is Solomon, talking about an event that occurred after David had passed..." David already knew, before he passed, that Solomon (or some descendant of his) would build the temple, because God told him so (through Nathan the prophet; II Samuel 7:12-13). | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 11:46 | comment | added | Harel13 | I find it strange that you reject the idea that people sometomes wrote about themselves in the third person. You'd have to then reject that Solomon wrote Song of Songs because he refers to himself there in the third person a couple of times. | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 10:56 | comment | added | RonP | I'm not sure why Solomon is the psalmist. Rashi's commentary only points out that meshichecha refers to Solomon. If David can't be the psalmist because of the 'third person', then this logic should also apply to Solomon who would be writing in the third person here. | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 10:38 | history | edited | Dov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2022 at 10:20 | history | asked | torahmike | CC BY-SA 4.0 |