P. Derek Overfield PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

close proximity to a citation of Ps 109:1.
This we
believe to be not mere coincidence, but evidence of
the fact that, although there were separate traditions
which developed around each citation, there was also
a development which resulted in both psalm citations
being brought together in one tradition and, as we
shall attempt to show, it is in fact that development
that is present in Eph 1:20-23.
Further evidence
for the association of Ps 8 with Ps 109 is found in
Mk 12:36 and the parallel Mt 22:44.
a citation of Ps 109:1 is rendered
In these texts
~1Ulxa:too 128
as against the LXX
?co&ov 0"'01) It is of course possible that Mk used
a Greek text of the LXX which contained this and was
then followed blindly by Matthew but corrected by
Luke.
But it is equally likely that Mark, and
perhaps even Matthew also, was influenced at this
point by Ps 8: 6 which reads ~?tox6:too 't(i5v 7I:o&ov 6.~'to\f.
Before attempting to discover how and
why it was that Ps 109:1 and Ps 8:6 were conflated
by the early Church we must further examine the use
that is made of these passages in Heb 1 and 2.
This epistle differs from both Ephesians and
1 Corinthians in that the psalm citations are not in
the close proximity that would lead us to suppose
that some association of the citations had been
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