I even read the list of abbreviations - well skimmed it at least. The first thing I noted in the text intro to Matthew (page 1) is that there is no mention of the Markan priority without Q, The Case Against Q that Mark Goodacre proposes (2002).
Next I noted this sentence: page 3. Messiah is never used in Tanakh of the future ideal Davidic king. I immediately wondered about the usage in the psalms, especially the use in Psalm 89 and comparing this psalm with Psalm 72. [I see reading David Mitchell's interactions with Wilson "Lord, Remember David: G. H. Wilson and the Message of the Psalter" that I am in good company - I really should read those authors. - even if they are just arguing with each other!]
Psalm 72 does not have the term anointed, but it does, at the end of Book 2 of the Psalter, describe the ideal king. This is in contrast to Psalm 89 at the end of Book 3 which describes the lament of the 'earthly' kingdom. (Failure is too strong a word.) Book 4 presents יְהוָה as king. What then is anointing and how does such a gift manifest itself in the individual, in the people, and in the relationship with יְהוָה?
The root for anoint is used in the following verses.
Verses sharing this stem
| יִתְיַצְּבוּ מַלְכֵי אֶרֶץ וְרוֹזְנִים נוֹסְדוּ יָחַד עַל יְהוָה וְעַל מְשִׁיחוֹ | --2.2 | They station themselves, these kinglets of earth these rule-makers reasoning as one against יְהוָה and against his anointed | rule-makers, רזן (rzn) once in the psalms, weighty, judicious, commanding the kings are against the anointed from the beginning |
| מַגְדִּל יְשׁוּעוֹת מַלְכּוֹ וְעֹשֶׂה חֶסֶד לִמְשִׁיחוֹ לְדָוִד וּלְזַרְעוֹ עַד עוֹלָם | -18.51 | Great victories he does for his king and he makes loving kindness for his anointed for David and his seed for ever | victories, ישׁע (yshu) = salvation Psalms 17-18 are prayer and statement of completion |
| עַתָּה יָדַעְתִּי כִּי הוֹשִׁיעַ יְהוָה מְשִׁיחוֹ יַעֲנֵהוּ מִשְּׁמֵי קָדְשׁוֹ בִּגְבֻרוֹת יֵשַׁע יְמִינוֹ | -20.7 | Now I know because יְהוָה will save his anointed he will answer from his holy heaven in the prevailing of the salvation of his right hand | part of the prayer for the king - following a space in the poem where the prayer is answered. |
| יְהוָה עֹז לָמוֹ וּמָעוֹז יְשׁוּעוֹת מְשִׁיחוֹ הוּא | -28.8 | יְהוָה their strength and the stronghold of the victories of his anointed is he | Psalms 27-28 are again a pair focused on the individual |
| אָהַבְתָּ צֶּדֶק וַתִּשְׂנָא רֶשַׁע עַל כֵּן מְשָׁחֲךָ אֱלֹהִים אֱלֹהֶיךָ שֶׁמֶן שָׂשׂוֹן מֵחֲבֵרֶךָ | -45.8 | You have loved righteousness and hate wickedness therefore God your God has anointed you with oil of joy above your companions | the marriage of the king |
| מָגִנֵּנוּ רְאֵה אֱלֹהִים וְהַבֵּט פְּנֵי מְשִׁיחֶךָ | -84.10 | See our shield O God and take note of the face of your anointed | in the middle of Book 3, prayer for the whole people |
| מָצָאתִי דָּוִד עַבְדִּי בְּשֶׁמֶן קָדְשִׁי מְשַׁחְתִּיו | -89.21 | I have found David my servant with the oil of my holiness I have anointed him | the promise is noted |
| וְאַתָּה זָנַחְתָּ וַתִּמְאָס הִתְעַבַּרְתָּ עִם מְשִׁיחֶךָ | -89.39 | But you yourself have rejected and refused You have passed over with your anointed | the lament follows at the failure of the Davidic line |
| אֲשֶׁר חֵרְפוּ אוֹיְבֶיךָ יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר חֵרְפוּ עִקְּבוֹת מְשִׁיחֶךָ | -89.52 | that your enemies יְהוָה have reproached that they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed | the enemies are triumphant |
| אַל תִּגְּעוּ בִמְשִׁיחָי וְלִנְבִיאַי אַל תָּרֵעוּ | 105.15 | do not touch my anointed and to my prophets do no evil | the anointed is the whole people |
| בַּעֲבוּר דָּוִד עַבְדֶּךָ אַל תָּשֵׁב פְּנֵי מְשִׁיחֶךָ | 132.10 | on behalf of David your servant do not turn away the presence of your anointed | anointed is a frame with a promise in Psalm 132 |
| שָׁם אַצְמִיחַ קֶרֶן לְדָוִד עָרַכְתִּי נֵר לִמְשִׁיחִי | 132.17 | There I will cause the horn Of David to grow I have arranged a lamp for my anointed | The psalms do more than give room for hope. They provide the framework in which the anointed may grow and learn mercy |
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