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A 4 page exegetical examination of Psalm 137. The writer offers an overview of the Book of Psalms, a detailed analysis of the psalm that includes different opinions on translation, and conclusions as to meaning. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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soul is stirred by thoughts of God" (Jackson). The Harvard Classics edition introduction to the Book of Psalms states that the poems are of "unknown authority" and "of uncertain dates"
(Book of Psalms). The Psalms are divided into five Books, each ending with its own doxology. One hundred of these are attached to individual names that are supposedly their authors
(Book of Psalms). These ascriptions, however, came later than the psalms themselves and are considered unreliable by the editors of the Harvard Classics edition. The question of their date of
origin is also problematic. Some are considered to be as old as 900 BC and none are thought to have been written any later than the beginning of the second
century BC, with the period of authorship extending over five hundred years (Book of Psalms). Background information concerning the Psalms is obtained from the contextual data within the respective poems
and also from superscriptions that connected with many of these works (Jackson). For the 116 psalms that have "superscriptions" (titles), scholarship acknowledges that these notations were not part of
the original documents; however, they, also, are extremely old, antedating "even the Septuagint of the third century BC" (Jackson). Often these titles provide the name of an author, as well
as the historical circumstances, which inspired the psalm and whether or not the poem is a song or a prayer (Jackson). The student researching this topic should note that Jackson
differs from the editors of the Harvard Classics edition in that he states that the Psalms were composed over the course of one thousands years, with the earliest attributed to
Moses in the 15th century BC. Several appear to have been written contemporary with the Babylonian captivity, which includes the psalm under consideration in this analysis, psalm 137. The
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