An Unsettled Psalm, Yet Its Meaning and Function Recognizable: Nahum 1:2-8
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The book of Nahum begins with a psalm, which has been a subject of heated debates among Nahum scholars since the possibility to trace the underlying pattern of an acrostic in Nahum 1 was raised in the end of 19the century. Over the century the psalm has been suffered from scholarly questionings, challenges, repositions, reconstructions, and emendations. The controversies are not settled down. A great deal has been written on the beginning of the book. However, it is interesting to note scholars' concern that has been spent on the hypothetical issues and how little has been spent in seeking to understand the meaning and function of the psalm in the final form of the book. Thus the present article will briefly introduce the controversial issues related to the psalm in Nahum 1, and then suggest two assumptions and their interpretive implications, which will be followed by the investigation on the meaning and function of the introductory psalm as it is presented in the final form of Nahum. The purpose of this article is not to save the psalm out of the unsettled controversies, but to revive it in the present form of the book as it is by reaffirming that the psalm conveys its meaning with clarity and performs a semantic and structural function in the book.
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The book of Nahum begins with a psalm, which has been a subject of heated debates among Nahum scholars since the possibility to trace the underlying pattern of an acrostic in Nahum 1 was raised in the end of 19the century. Over the century the psalm has been suffered from scholarly questionings, challenges, repositions, reconstructions, and emendations. The controversies are not settled down. A great deal has been written on the beginning of the book. However, it is interesting to note scholars' concern that has been spent on the hypothetical issues and how little has been spent in seeking to understand the meaning and function of the psalm in the final form of the book. Thus the present article will briefly introduce the controversial issues related to the psalm in Nahum 1, and then suggest two assumptions and their interpretive implications, which will be followed by the investigation on the meaning and function of the introductory psalm as it is presented in the final form of Nahum. The purpose of this article is not to save the psalm out of the unsettled controversies, but to revive it in the present form of the book as it is by reaffirming that the psalm conveys its meaning with clarity and performs a semantic and structural function in the book.
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