Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: The “Divine Council” Interpretation of Psalm 82:1

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4 comments

  1. Second compliment: exceptional exegetical explanation of Ps 82:1.

    Follow up question:
    must we limit the divine council to God’s “in session” meeting with civil rulers? Given the theocratic nature of Israel, might we not (in the NT) also observe this applies to ecclesial rulers (elders)?

    ATVL, the principle appears sound (God both promises and warns elders he is in attendance in their exercise of his delegated authority over his people).

  2. Excellent brothers!
    Great hermeneutics explanation for the ordering priority of internal interpretive tools (authoritative), vs. external tools (Illuminative, e.g., ANE data).

  3. Good episode, worth re-listening to later.

    I first encountered the divine council idea in Kline, so it wasn’t a jarring paradigm shift to see it in Heiser.

    • I understand that Heiser et al have implied/suggested that they are following Meredith. I doubt it. His method and conclusions weren’t theirs. I did a site search of meredithkline.com and it’s not at all evident that Meredith was saying what these guys are saying or that he approached this question in the way they are.

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