H8615

• {"n":"Psalm 72:20","s":"The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. Yet David's name appears on psalms well after this point.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=psalm-72-20","r":"Psalm 72:20","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads the prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended, accurately translating a straightforward Hebrew sentence, but without necessarily flagging how strange the claim is once a reader notices David's name reattached to psalms later in the book, including 86, 101, 103, and many more."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"Imagine a book with a note halfway through saying the author's contributions end here, and then the same author's chapters keep appearing for the rest of the book. That contradiction is a visible seam, evidence the book was assembled out of smaller pieces at different times, exactly what this verse shows about how the Psalter itself was put together."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"This colophon almost certainly closes an earlier, smaller collection of Davidic psalms compiled before the Psalter reached its final, five-book form, a collection later scribes and editors incorporated into the larger work without removing this now-outdated closing note. Scholars debate whether it originally marked the end of a scroll or a specific anthology, but either way it is a visible fossil of the book's own layered compilation history, left standing even after later editors kept adding more Davidic psalms beyond it."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English readers meeting the prayers of David are ended at Psalm 72 have no reason to notice the claim is factually overtaken by dozens of later psalms in the same book still attributed to David, so the verse's real function, as a preserved trace of an earlier editorial stage, is invisible without checking the rest of the Psalter's attributions."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When an editorial statement inside a biblical book is contradicted by material appearing later in the same book, read the contradiction as evidence of the book's compilation history rather than assuming either the statement or the later material must be in error. Both can be original to their own stage of the text's growth."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Reading the colophon as simply describing Book II, Psalms 42-72, as a self-contained Davidic collection treats it as accurate for its original, smaller context. Reading it as a claim about David's total contribution to the finished Psalter runs immediately into the dozens of Davidic psalms that follow, showing the verse was never updated to match the book's later growth."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05db\u05b8\u05bc\u05dc\u05d5\u05bc \u05ea\u05b0\u05e4\u05b4\u05dc\u05bc\u05d5\u05b9\u05ea \u05d3\u05b8\u05bc\u05d5\u05b4\u05d3 \u05d1\u05b6\u05bc\u05df\u05be\u05d9\u05b4\u05e9\u05b8\u05c1\u05d9 kalu tefillot David ben-Yishai \u00b7 H8615"}],"src":["Psalms attributed to David appearing after Psalm 72: 86, 101, 103, 108-110, 122, 124, 131, 133, 138-145","Standard scholarly discussion of Psalm 72:20 as a compilation-history colophon"]}