firedragon
Veteran Member
There are those of us who believe the book of Psalms in the Tanakh was definitely written by David, the father of Solomon, the Slayer of Goliath. Yet many have questioned the authorship of it. Let us just look at one point in this discourse and see if there are anything further to add in order to prove or disprove the authorship of Psalms is indeed David, the father of Solomon.
The questions on one point - The exile and the lamentation.
When did King David live according to the Bible? 1,000 BC? Did he write about being in exile? Did he narrate about being in exile? Why would the psalms then lament about being in exile?
When were they exiled to Babylon? 5th century BC? In that case did David narrate or write the Psalms half a millennium after he lived?
The biblical story about David doesn't have anything to do with an exile to Babylon. And it is not a prediction but a lamentations of a man or a poet who was writing about a people in exile in the Iraqi peninsula. A lamentation about being conquered, exiled to a land far away, their bitterness and anger towards the edomites who sided with the Babylonian conquerers. That was not written or narrated by David. It was written half a millennium later by a scribe. By the sound of the lament some argue that it was written after the people were allowed to return to their home Judah which would have been after 538 BC with the Persian conquest of Babylon because the Psalms note that people were persecuted and made to hang their musical instruments which may mean they were not allowed to enjoy and be poetic so they had to wait for freedom.
Nevertheless, that only shows it may have been written somewhere around 587 BC to after 538 BC. So was it written after Jeremiah which mentions the deportation of people to Babylon? Which one?
It is definitely interesting to here some ideas and objective refutations or promotions of this idea that Psalms was never written by David the father of Solomon (I keep calling him specifically "the father of Solomon" in this post because some argue there were two davids so mind me please, I just wish to be holistic). What say you oh learned ones?
The questions on one point - The exile and the lamentation.
When did King David live according to the Bible? 1,000 BC? Did he write about being in exile? Did he narrate about being in exile? Why would the psalms then lament about being in exile?
When were they exiled to Babylon? 5th century BC? In that case did David narrate or write the Psalms half a millennium after he lived?
The biblical story about David doesn't have anything to do with an exile to Babylon. And it is not a prediction but a lamentations of a man or a poet who was writing about a people in exile in the Iraqi peninsula. A lamentation about being conquered, exiled to a land far away, their bitterness and anger towards the edomites who sided with the Babylonian conquerers. That was not written or narrated by David. It was written half a millennium later by a scribe. By the sound of the lament some argue that it was written after the people were allowed to return to their home Judah which would have been after 538 BC with the Persian conquest of Babylon because the Psalms note that people were persecuted and made to hang their musical instruments which may mean they were not allowed to enjoy and be poetic so they had to wait for freedom.
Nevertheless, that only shows it may have been written somewhere around 587 BC to after 538 BC. So was it written after Jeremiah which mentions the deportation of people to Babylon? Which one?
It is definitely interesting to here some ideas and objective refutations or promotions of this idea that Psalms was never written by David the father of Solomon (I keep calling him specifically "the father of Solomon" in this post because some argue there were two davids so mind me please, I just wish to be holistic). What say you oh learned ones?