God the Almighty? Observations in the Psalms
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The fact that the Hebrew Psalter does not characterize God as “almighty” and that only a few post-exilic Psalms approach the notion of divine omnipotence does not represent a devaluation of God’s power, but rather a definition of this power in relational and soteriological terms.
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Cf. Schwiderski (ed.), pp. 706-707, s.v. ṣby; J. Hoftijzer/K. Jongeling, Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions II (ho I/21.2; Leiden 1995), pp. 957-958, s.v. ṣby1. Even if the root ṣby is well-attested from the first millennium b.c.e. onwards, there is no evidence for such a legal formula prior to the 1st-3rd centuries c.e. The phrase wkʿt kl zy tṣbh šlḥ ly “And now, whatever you desire, send (word) to me“ (B. Porten/A. Yardeni (eds.), tada I, (Winona Lake, 1986), p. 16; cf. D. Schwiderski (ed.), The Old and Imperial Aramaic Inscriptions II, (FoSub 2; Berlin/New York, 2004), p. 2), which is attested in a letter dated between the late 6th and the early 5th centuries b.c.e., cannot be deemed as an exception. It is the only reference from the first millennium b.c.e. having some formal similarities with the three phrases cited by Hurvitz. But it is not used in a legal context, and it does not have any of the characteristics of a formula. This is further evidence against the assumption that a legal formula already existed in the first millennium b.c.e.
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God the Almighty? Observations in the Psalms
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The fact that the Hebrew Psalter does not characterize God as “almighty” and that only a few post-exilic Psalms approach the notion of divine omnipotence does not represent a devaluation of God’s power, but rather a definition of this power in relational and soteriological terms.
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