Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 91 No. 2, 2021.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.91.2.2
»Teach Us to Number Our Days, That We May Gain a Heart of Wisdom«. Human Transience in the Light of God's Eternity and the Acquisition of a Heart of Wisdom According to Ps 90
Silvana Fužinato
orcid.org/0000-0002-6777-1526
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in akovo, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Đakovo, Hrvatska
Abstract
In the center of Ps 90, which belongs to sapiential meditation, is a human being suffering because of the transience of time? By reflecting on human beings' transience in the light of Divine eternity, the psalm writer searches for the meaning of his existence and prays to the Lord to teach him how to number his days so that he may gain a heart of wisdom. How should one number his/her days and what is the meaning of a heart of wisdom? These are the questions this article will attempt to answer. The first part of the article deals with the issues of authorship, literary genre, and structure of Ps 90, while the second part engages in an exegetical -theological analysis with an emphasis on traits of Divine and human face that the psalm portrays. The last and for this study the most important part of the article tries to respond to the introductory questions by defining the human heart of wisdom and by determining some of its most fundamental traits, such as acceptance of transience, taking on responsibility, living out boundaries, and discovery of the value of smallness.
Keywords
Ps 90; heart of wisdom; suffering; human transience; God's eternity.
Hrčak ID:
266221
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Publication date:
29.7.2021.
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