The Design of the Psalter

Peter C. W. Ho

ISBN 10: 1532654421 / ISBN 13: 9781532654428

Published by Pickwick Publications Okt 2019, 2019

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Good poetry is like a good painting: the more you linger over it, the more it reveals. It is a deep well that never runs dry. And that is why the Psalter, like a good painting, keeps giving. In the last four decades, Psalms scholarship has found remarkable fruitfulness in reading the Psalter as a book--that is, in reading the Psalms as a unified composition with a metanarrative across its 150 poems. Pivotal questions associated with this approach really boil down to two questions--how and why How are individual psalms sequenced, if at all, and what is the design logic behind that macrostructure This volume seeks to answer those questions. In essence, the Psalter unfurls the story of the Davidic covenant. While interest in the editing of the Psalter remains high in recent Psalms scholarship, this interest has not led to clear consensus. The specific and timely contribution of this volume is twofold. First, it consolidates the results of studies on groups of psalms. Second, it integrates poetic and thematic approaches that are typically separated in Psalms scholarship. Readers will find results of this study surprising and their implications sobering. 412 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Design of the Psalter
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications Okt 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1532654421
• ISBN 13: 9781532654428
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 254W x 178H x 22D millimeters 254 millimeters width by 178 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 771 grams

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Synopsis

Good poetry is like a good painting: the more you linger over it, the more it reveals. It is a deep well that never runs dry. And that is why the Psalter, like a good painting, keeps giving. In the last four decades, Psalms scholarship has found remarkable fruitfulness in reading the Psalter as a book—that is, in reading the Psalms as a unified composition with a metanarrative across its 150 poems. Pivotal questions associated with this approach really boil down to two questions—how and why? How are individual psalms sequenced, if at all, and what is the design logic behind that macrostructure? This volume seeks to answer those questions. In essence, the Psalter unfurls the story of the Davidic covenant. While interest in the editing of the Psalter remains high in recent Psalms scholarship, this interest has not led to clear consensus. The specific and timely contribution of this volume is twofold. First, it consolidates the results of studies on groups of psalms. Second, it integrates poetic and thematic approaches that are typically separated in Psalms scholarship. Readers will find results of this study surprising and their implications sobering.

About the Authors

Peter C. W. Ho is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Singapore Bible College. His research interests include Hebrew poetry and stylistic studies. His work has appeared in Vetus Testamentum and the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.

J. Gordon McConville is Professor of Old Testament Theology at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author of several books, including God and Earthly Power (2006).