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446 THE BIBLE, THE PSALMS OF SOLOMON, AND QUMRAN<br />

9 Worthy art thou to take <strong>the</strong> scroll <strong>and</strong> to open its <strong>sea</strong>ls,<br />

for thou wast slain <strong>and</strong> by thy blood didst ransom men for God<br />

from every tribe <strong>and</strong> tongue <strong>and</strong> people <strong>and</strong> nation,<br />

10 <strong>and</strong> hast made <strong>the</strong>m a kingdom <strong>and</strong> priests to our God,<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>y shall reign on earth.<br />

Even from this cursory examination it is clear that <strong>the</strong> use of parallelism<br />

varies considerably among psalms <strong>and</strong> hymns composed in <strong>the</strong> Second<br />

Temple period. More re<strong>sea</strong>rch is needed on each corpus of material to<br />

determine <strong>the</strong> extent to which, <strong>and</strong> among which writers <strong>and</strong>/or groups,<br />

<strong>the</strong> formal features of <strong>the</strong> OT Psalter are breaking down.

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