Its place among the pilgrim psalms raises a presumption in favour of a post-exilic date, and one class of commentators refers it confidently to the period of the rebuilding of the Temple.
These considerations are against a post-exilic date, for which the chief argument is the inclusion of the psalm in the collection of pilgrim songs.
The effect of this cumulative argument has been supposed to be overwhelming in favour of a post-exilic date.
Recently, however, Baudissin, in a very careful discussion, has ably argued for at least the possibility of a pre-exilic date.
On the whole, however, the balance leans to a post-exilic date.
If we accept the opinion that the conception of resurrection was the result of intercourse with Persia, we shall have to give a post-exilic date to the psalm.
In Ezekiel they assume a composite form, due apparently to Babylonian influences; but here there is no trace of that, and the absence of such strongly supports a pre-exilic date.
As stated above, there is no conclusive reason against the pre-exilic date of this expression.
But it would appear (though this is not expressly said, and must rather be inferred from the general proofs of a post-exilic date) that Jerusalem is inhabited.
If what has been unfolded in the preceding paragraphs is recognised as the statement of the chapters themselves, it will be felt that further evidence of an exilic date is scarcely needed.
In this there is nothing to make the Isaian authorship probable, or anexilic date impossible.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exilic date" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
