エルサレムとシオンの歌

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  • The songs of Jerusalem
  • エルサレム ト シオン ノ ウタ

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The importance of Jerusalem in the Bible's imagery both of God's rule in the world and of the hope for the future.<br>Jerusalem is the “city of the great King, ” clearly locating Yahweh's function as King of the comes in the imperial sway over the surrounding area held from Jerusalem by the Davidic dynasty.<br>The meaning of the cultic re-enactment of Yahweh's sovereignity over the world, to which the “kings assembled solemnly” are witnessed along with Israel, is that through it, as well as through the political and military power that brought the kings in obeisance to Jerusalem. Thus were the sacred and the secular one in the ancient world. When the ark had been transferred to Mount Zion within the city area and, later, Solomon's temple had been built, Jerusalem became the spiritual centre of the kingdom. Jerusalem was above all the chosen city of Yahweh:<br>“But He chose the tribe of Judah Mount Zion, which He loves. (Ps 78:68).<br>Every year the Israelite came up to this city, this permanent abode of his God and there enjoyed friendly contact with Yahweh.<br>Jerusalem was the pride and joy of every man of Israel:<br>“For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere” (Ps 84:10).<br>The songs picture the ultimate happiness, or blessing, as arising from that with which man makes contact in Zion.<br>Psalm 15 is but the example of a number of Israel's songs the origins of which are associated with the sacred site at which contact was established between the human and the divine spheres.<br>During these pilgrimages songs echoed and flutes were played.<br>There was joy in the hearts of all because they were on their way “to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel” (Is 30:29).<br>This vision of the crowd streaming in from all sides inspired some of the prophecies of Isaiah.<br>In Summary: what message includes to us: “Jerusalem.”<br>It is a new prophetic message: Jerusalem must be the centre of a renewed people of God. Then all nations would pour into the holy city. (Is 60 and 66; Mic 4; Zech 8 and 14 etc.).<br>The royal songs are “prayers of hope”. God's blessings are now directed to the future, are now sung with a view to a coming time, full of hope and desire.

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    オリエント 12 (1-2), 37-64,169, 1969

    一般社団法人 日本オリエント学会

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