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Loren F Bliese

Sweeter Than Honey

Symbolic Numbers and Structure in Psalm 19

Loren F Bliese

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Resource Publications (CA)
07 October 2025
Christianity; Old Testaments; Sacred texts
In this study of Psalm 19, Loren Bliese focuses on how symbolic numbers embellish structural high points. An awareness of numerical embellishment deepens an appreciation of how ""sweet"" a text like Psalm 19 is in message and form. Symbolic numbers, as recognized by many scholars, include three types: (1) theological numbers based on the divine name YHWH (""the Lord"") with the value of twenty-six, (2) those based on the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and (3) the ""fullness"" number seven. Both ordinal-alphabetic and standard-mathematical values, with larger counts up to four hundred for letters, are analyzed. Both are clearly used for embellishment at structural high points. This is shown by four tables that list the twenty-two poetic lines arranged from the highest ratios to the lowest for comparison. Significantly higher ratios of numerical values per line are shown to occur in literary peaks and peripheral lines more than in other lines. However, the line with ""fear of the Lord"" has high ratios despite not being a peak or peripheral line. This gives numerical evidence of its special theological focus, as proposed by several scholars who note ""fear"" is exceptional by not being one of the parallel keywords in Psalm 119.
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Imprint:   Resource Publications (CA)
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 6mm
Weight:   159g
ISBN:   9798385257874
Pages:   116
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Loren F. Bliese has served as both a translation consultant with the Bible Society of Ethiopia and taught Bible at Mekane Yesus Seminary for over twenty years. He has published Count God In: Theological Numbers in the Song of Songs and God's Good Covenant: Poetic Beauty in Hosea Enhanced by Counting, and his PhD dissertation, A Generative Grammar of Afar. He has also published many articles on the Hebrew Bible and on Ethiopian languages and anthropology.

Reviews for Sweeter Than Honey: Symbolic Numbers and Structure in Psalm 19

""Loren Bliese's path-breaking new study on Psalm 19 critically applies and fruitfully advances the numerical method of biblical interpretation forged by Israel Knohl and other scholars. Anyone interested in biblical studies and the Psalms will be enlightened by Bliese's Sweeter than Honey."" --Samuel Zinner, contributor to German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1920-1945


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