Seeking Torah, Seeking God: Psalm 119

References for further reading:

• אבי הורביץ, בין לשון ללשון: לתולדות לשון המקרא בימי בית שני, ירושלים, 1972.
• Avi Hurvitz, “Continuity and Innovation in Biblical Hebrew– The Case of ‘Semantic Change’ in Post Exilic Writings,” in Studies in Ancient Hebrew Semantics (ed. T. Muraoka; Abr Nahrain Supplement Series 4: 1995): 1-10.
• The commentary on Psalm 119 in The Jewish Study Bible (ed. A. Berlin and M. Z. Brettler; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) provides additional examples of the Psalm’s unique religious expressions, especially its substitution of God’s Torah for God.