Reading the Psalms as a Book
1st Edition
Published on 7. January 1996
137 pages
978-0-567-12554-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book discusses the theory that the Psalter was compiled with the specific intention that it should be used as a book for private spiritual reading. It is argued that if this were so, the work of the final editors would not have been confined to arranging the psalms in a particular order but would have included additions and interpolations intended to give the whole book a new orientation. An investigation of selected psalms shows that although the Psalter may have become a book for private devotion not long after its compilation, there is little evidence that it was compiled for that purpose.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-567-12554-5 (9780567125545)
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R. N. Whybray
Reading the Psalms as a Book
Book
01/1996
Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffie
€63.40
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Person
The late was Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Studies at the Univeristy of Hull.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Note on Commentaries
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1 RECENT VIEWS ON THE COMPOSITION AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE PSALTER
- Chapter 2 WISDOM AND TORAH MATERIAL
- Chapter 3 ESCHATOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
- Chapter 4 THE INTERPRETATION OF RITUAL SACRIFICE
- CONCLUSION
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
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- V
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