Reading the Palms Forewritten

Forewriting

In the future the psalms of David are like the fore edge paintings on some books, symbol of writing below, above and within the text. The surface text forewritten in Psalm 22 prewrites and echoes Isaiah 53, Ezekiel 28, Job 40-41).

 Dialogues, Landscapes 

The notion of palm reading comes from Isaiah, and in Psalm 119. Herein  Root and Branch is a background inquiry into Psalm 1, Shekhinah how David lies down to sleep in Psalm 4. Psalm 2 is opposite Psalm 1 as the rebel ( of 2) is opposite the righteous. It prefigures the opposition of astronomers' pipe dreams in Trick or Treat in Space against Psalm 8.  Psalm 8 is  an embedded metaphor of the cosmos which The fingers of God and the human hand denote as an essential human domain here. 

All kinds of prophetic encounters occur in the meditation of  botanical humanity of Psalm 1, the setting up of the boundary stones of the human of Psalm 8, the dialogue in heaven before the world began of Psalm 16 (which begins as early as Psalm 2), .The embedded dialogue of Psalm 16 between the Father and Son before Creation is not set apart by paragraphs or quotes. Further embedding occurs with an implicit landscape in the traditional order of Psalms in the 20's and 30's. This suggests a topography of  mountains and valleys of an inner terrain. Here, in the guise of David in his extremities, Messiah walks foregrounding man and woman.The plateau is surrounded by mountains when we leave the valley below.

Insight Statutes

 Call these insights therefore understandings reached on the plateau, after climbing, which is to say that the writer heard the Psalms read aloud each morning  in a two room public schoolhouse. Students would read from the front of the class at the beginning of the day: Lift up your heads O ye gates! Like a hummingbird drinking from a hose, but now, listening, as Isaiah says, that  wakes the ears to listen "as one being taught," the earlier they are heard the more they speak. Psalm 119 says, I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate upon your statutes. This is a revelation in words and not words, more insight than all my teachers because you have exalted above all things your word and your name (138.2). Such matters transport to an extraordinary undertaking of the inner world.

An account of the writing of the Psalms of David is here.

Note

This is a poetical reading. It takes the poetical for granted, hence  when Young (Introduction to the Old Testament, 313) cites Beriatha in the Babylonian Talmud, Baba Bathra (14b) that David wrote the Psalms with the help of ten elders, Adam, Melchizedek, Abraham, Moses, Heman and Jeduthun, Asaph and the three sons of Korah, it claps with delight, the more so if Adam wrote Psalm 139 and Melchizedek Psalm 110. Young of course rejects this view, but he is a scholar.  Singers, poets are not harmed by history. It is idiotic to read poetry and question its existence at the same time. It is right there in front of your eyes!