Hi Peter,My mention of Qumran was not concerned with this verse, but more general in that, generally speaking, the DSS confirm our traditional understanding of the Hebrew lexicon; they confirm the consonantal text of the HB; and they provide a range of interpretations of the Psalms which, if I am not mistaken, do not generally support Dahood's thesis of widespread Ugaritic links.
I don't see what Qumran has to do with Dahood's Ps. 1:1. ...
BTW, did you look at the other vv. I cited for derek meaning "seat ofI don't accept NIV as an authority. Were they right to translate like this? Probably not.
power"? NIV did translate some of those as "strength," "vitality" or some
such.
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