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The Political Theology of the Davidic Dynasty embedded in Psalm 89 Hae-Kwon Kim, Ph. D. Professor, Department of Christian Studies Soongsil University The purpose of the present paper is to explore the political theology of the Davidic covenant as embedded in Psalm 89 with special focus on the dynamic relationship between myth and history. For this end the present essay makes an exegetical inquiry into Psalm 89 with a religion-of-history approach to the tension lying between the history of the Davidic covenant and the ancient Near Eastern creation myths. Starting from the assumption that characteristic of the religion of Israel is a perennial and unrelaxed tension between the mythic and the historical, the present essay argues that Israelite religion is continuous with the religions of Israel's neighbors, and hence continuous with a mythological tradition. I agree with F. M. Cross when he argues for the commonality between the Davidic kingship and the central, cosmogonic myth of the Canaanites in threefold areas: (1) a divine warrior battles against a god of chaos; (2) the divine warrior is victorious; and (3) the divine warrior becomes king and receives a royal palace. Cross observes that this pattern appears in some Old Testament texts in its pure, mythical form. Through this exegetical and comparative inquiry of the Davidic covenant in Psalm 89, the present essay offers a new way of understanding the Davidic Covenant as an intersection of myth and history. Finally, the present essay concludes that the political theology of the Davidic dynasty can be best understood in the dialectical dynamic between history and myth, eventually contributing to the preservation of the people of Israel as a community who had survived many historic catastrophes in expectation of the coming of a Davidic messiah to take the vacant throne of David.

한국어

본 논문은 삼하 7장 12-16절을 시적으로 변용시킨 시편 89편에 나타난 다윗 언약을 연구하고자 한다. 주석적 방법과 종교사학파적 연구를 통하여 다윗 언약의 신화적 구조를 부각시켜 신학적 자산가치를 부각시키며, 나아가 다윗 언약이 왕실의 정치적 서술이 아니라, 하나님과 이스라엘의 관계를 계약적 영속성을 표현하는 신학적 유산임을 밝힌다.