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

m.essianism and to other matters.
We have already seen that Ps 109:1 was
interpreted messianically, though not exclusively so,
,\,
in Judaism, though admittedly these messianic applications
of the psalm in Jewish sources are without
€xception much later than the first century.
But
two NT texts offer some support for this understanding.
Mk 12:35-37 is on all counts difficult to evaluate.
Although the Marcan setting is unlikely to be original~80
)
it is probable that the logion has its origin with
Jesus since it is unlikely that the evangelist would
create a pericope which left itself open to such
~biguity as do these verses. 181
Mark represents
Jesus not as denying the Davidic sonship of the Messiah
but as attempting to clarify the nature of m.essiahship:
the messianic kingdom will not merely be a repetition
of the Davidic kingdom;
the messianic reign will be
neither political nor military.
The fact that
Mk 12:35-37 contains a citation of Ps 109:1 which
is applied to the Messiah by Jesus is of course significant
for reference to the same psalm citation in
Ephesians, but of even more significance is the fact
that the amendments which Jesus issues to the common
interpretation are both, in their different ways,
taken up by the author of Ephesians:
the kingdom,
significantly the kingdom of Christ and of God in
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