Review of Wayman, Diodore the Theologian: Πρόνοια in his Commentary on Psalms 1–50 (original) (raw)

The Shape of Davidic Psalms as Messianic

The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2019

Systematic theologians have constructed a Christology that is highly based on NT texts, which, interestingly, supports the anachronistic reading Psalms scholarship has sustained in the last two centuries. In contrast, this paper argues for a forward reading that supports the Psalms as intrinsically messianic. Methodologically, I study the Davidic psalms in five collections giving emphasis to the superscriptions, structural form and content. My observations show that the Davidic psalms first trace the establishment of the Davidic kingship followed by his downfall. Then, remarkably, the Davidic characterization shifts to a royal figure, who is blameless, victorious, and juridically condemned. The final Davidic collection reveals a community of people supplicating patiently before the arrival of a blissful and just society. The paper shows that the NT's understanding of Jesus fulfilling the messianic hopes in the Psalter is a formidable and reasonable interpretation, and need not be anachronistic. *erratum in note 9. The article, “An Integrated Reading of Psalms 1 and 2,” JSOT 98 (2002): 75–88, should be by Robert L. Cole instead of Robert A. Cole.

Paul and Philo on the Psalms Towards a Spiritual Notion of Scripture

NovT, 2020

Philo of Alexandria shares Paul's Jewish Diaspora background and his use of the lxx. He also addressed Roman audiences just a decade or two before Paul wrote his Letter to the Romans. He thus enables us to analyze Paul's approach to Psalms from a rigorous historical perspective, which highlights both their phenomenological similarities and Paul's innovations on the path to develop a spiritual notion of Scripture.

PhD: David Without End: The Role of the Figure of David in Psalms 3-14

The past few decades have witnessed a strong interest in the shape and message of the book of Psalms. As part of this trend, scholars have begun to focus again on the presence of David within the book, and have put forward several different theories on what role or function the figure of David plays within its larger editorial purpose. In this thesis, I ask whether contemporary studies have properly grasped how the figure of David is utilized. After introducing the concepts of "speaking persona" and canonical context in the first chapter, in the second chapter I will attend to the question of voicing in the history of interpretation. Here,