- When Psalms 14:1 says “in his heart” is this intended to be an emotional reaction or a “thinking” since, among the ancients, what was the seat of thought — the heart or elsewhere?
- What is the conviction of the “naval” where Divinity is concerned?
- And, as a result of this conviction, what is the action pattern of this type of individual?
- Would Psalms 14:2-3 indicate a basic pessimism as to the nature of the society in which the writer/speaker dwelt?
- Is the passage one which laments an individual privation or one which addresses privation of Israel as such? And would this expression be at a time of joy, or at a time of crisis and/or destruction?
- Or, in other words, is this Psalm actually not a lament which asks for some succor?
- Indeed, would Psalms 14:7 indicate that this was composed at a time of exile or, at least, “partial dislocation of the Israel population” — and has there been a prior reference to this condition in the earlier Psalms?
- Is there any significance in the fact that the hoped-for joy would be for “Jacob and Israel” but no reference to Judah?
