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INTERMISSION 🙞 break down of the book of Psalms part 1

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 INTERMISSION Breakdown of the book of Psalms PART 1 As you may know, if you've been following my blog, I am in the process of exegeting the 'psalms of ascent', psalms 120-134. But I can't help myself and find myself needing a refresher from this arduous task. I had no idea where that study would lead me when I begin. My intention had been to so very simply and quickly run through the psalms identifying the  figura  at play. But in doing so, the study opened wide and has been showing me the coolest things. I'm loving it. And I'm loving the repercussions it is having on all my bible study in general. And I'm loving how it is training me to really back up my findings and present my work clearly. I have an old blog post that lays out  tips for biblical exegesis , that is not my intention here. But I will briefly layout basics of my process here. In these intermission posts, I will be moving through the psalms 5 at a time. In part this is due to my need to see a...
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8: Part 1 of exegesis of psalm 124:1-2 *revised march 2026*

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This psalm is the cathartic culmination of all the pathos and sublime that the first 4 psalms have been leading up to. I have heard it said that the Hebrews were, rather that they are very doleful during the feast seasons. Remember the suffering. Remember. Suffer. Remember. Suffer. Ausubel says "the Jewish people imposed on itself until the coming of the Messiah, a perpetual mourning for the 'temple in Jerusalem' that had been destroyed by the Romans in the year 70AD. The commemorative program of never ending grief brought from the very beginning a rabbinic ban against all choral and instrumental music in any house of prayer. This prohibition helps explain why the art of music, was allowed to languish and wither on the vine in the synagogue" (Ausubel, 220). This ban seemed to be put in place much latter during the middle ages, 5th-10th Century AD, when rabbis perceived that borrowing and mixing of cultures in the music as assimilation and profaned it. [Pictured: Templ...
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