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The Psalms research in current Study since the 1990‘s

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The purpose of this article is to survey a number of current studies in Psalm studies since 1990s and provide an overall perspective. For this study I have examined the major psalm studies of foreign scholars and korean scholars at the same time. Using the diachronic and synchronic methodologies, the current Psalm studies shows the following characteristics. First of all, the diachronic methodology, namely the classical form critic including the questions about Gattung, the original life setting(Sitz im Leben) is not predominant any more in Psalms studies. Merely, the several studies have been undertaken in the area of individual lament Psalms, wisdom Psalms and royal psalms, which seem to be fully explored by Herman Gunkel. On the contrary, the synchronic research has continually undergone in the following two directions. First, most researches focuses on the general linguistic approaches, namely a major feature of Hebrew poetry, language, image, structure, syntactical constriction. Second, the most prevailing interest in Psalm researchers has to do with the questions about the editorial intention of the final form of the text. This study is intended to explore the theological intention of the current position of the individual, Psalm or small unit of several psalms or the final form of the Psalm in the current position. Further, along with the diachronic and synchronic approaches, the psalm studies habe employed a range of different methods, namely ideologic, feministic and ecological approaches. Recently, several scholars tend to concern this tendency. Despite of this concern, the remarkably various methodologies enrich the Psalm studies. In fact, the methodologies are not contrary to each other, but cooperative. Moreover, it seems that this tendency will go further.

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