Psalm 31

The Psalm 31 ( Greek- count of 30 ) is a psalm of David in the Bible and one of a series of Lamentations of an individual.

Structure

The psalm is divided into two parts, both of which are quite similar. Therefore, it was already assumed that it was originally in fact two different in the Psalm.

In addition, as the two parts should be divided into, there are no general agreement in the research. A possible subdivision of Hermann Gunkel is as follows:

Assessment

Because of touches of the Psalm with others and with a lamentation of Jeremiah the Psalm learned quite sharp criticism. Bernhard Duhm calls the psalm " of quotations stitched together ". Rudolf Kittel also criticized the Psalm, he put absolutely no " personal experience " ahead.

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