%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Then David Began to Sing this Song¡¯: Composition and Hermeneutics in Pseudo
%A Max Botner
%J Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
%@ 1745-5286
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0951820718805638
%X Despite burgeoning interest in Pseudo-Philo's use of the Jewish scriptures, little to-date has been said about the writer's psalm of David (LAB 59.4). In fact, outside of Strugnell's reconstruction of the psalm's Vorlage (1965) and Jacobson's two-volume commentary (1996), virtually nothing has been written about this section of Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum. This article demonstrates that LAB 59.4 constitutes a sophisticated piece of scriptural exegesis that fits within the writer's well-established hermeneutical strategies. It identifies plausible intertexts comprising LAB's psalm and traces the hermeneutical techniques that attracted Pseudo-Philo to these passages of scripture
%K Liber antiquitatum biblicarum (LAB)
%K Pseudo-Philo
%K David
%K Psalms (Psalter)
%K Psalm 91
%K Pseudepigrapha
%K Dead Sea Scrolls
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0951820718805638