Two Critical Notes on Psalm 68 and Deuteronomy 33

The corpus of early Hebrew poetry, to which these two lengthy poems belong, has been the subject of a great deal of critical discussion, both because of the many problems involved and because of the contribution which these poems make to the history of Hebrew prosody, grammar, lexicography, and religion. It is thus not without value that further efforts at solution of some of the difficulties be made. The following brief notes deal with two passages that have been the subject of extended investigation by various scholars.