Guiding Questions: Psalms 96

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. Who is mandated to “sing a new song” to God?
  2. Does this Psalm (Psalms 96:3) appear to be addressed to Israelites or, rather, to all people?
  3. In Psalms 96:5, is there clearly a statement of monotheism affirming that there is but one God?
  4. And in Psalms 96:7 who is mandated to worship God?
  5. Above and beyond the devotion coming from “the peoples”, from what other source of a universal nature will there be an acknowledgement of God’s “rulership”?
  6. But, when all is said and done, the role of the Divine involves the same principle which the Psalmist has enunciated again and again — and as set forth in Psalms 96:13 — which is?

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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