PSALM 24 proposal of Exegetical Solution by the Semitic Biblical Rhetoric Analysis

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Published: Nov 20, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1983-2478.2020v15n2p386-409
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Psalm, YHWH, Exegesis, Semitic Biblical Rhetoric Analysis

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Waldecir Gonzaga
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5929-382X
Doaldo Ferreira Belem
Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1431-0125

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The extraordinary Ps 24 is one of the most beautiful biblical texts of the Judeo-Christian liturgy, and it’s aim of scrutiny of scholars since antiquity. Albeit this psalm exhibits challenges to be envisaged: it’s difficult to determinate its literary organization as a whole, for the component parts seem to possess diversity in form and content. A baffling frame, where the Textual Criticism points to problems of textual transmission and of tradition, while the Textual Constitution Criticism points to a possible combination of previously dissociated compositions. Therefore, this essay proposes an exegetical solution by the Semitic Biblical Rhetoric Analysis to these problems, but mainly to determinate its cohesion, its unifying theme – the integration between worshiper and worshiped, in a possibility that the Generation of Jacob be the Temple itself in which the King of Glory is invited to take possession.


 


 

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GONZAGA, Waldecir; BELEM, Doaldo Ferreira. PSALM 24: proposal of Exegetical Solution by the Semitic Biblical Rhetoric Analysis. INTERAÇÕES, Belo Horizonte, v. 15, n. 2, p. 386–409, 2020. DOI: 10.5752/P.1983-2478.2020v15n2p386-409. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/interacoes/article/view/20311. Acesso em: 9 aug. 2025.
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Author Biographies

Waldecir Gonzaga, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

 

 

Doaldo Ferreira Belem, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Doutorando e Mestre em Teologia Área Bíblica pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. ORCID:0000-0003-1431-0125. E-mail:doaldofb@uol.com.br.

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