The Oxford handbook of the Psalms /edited by William P. Brown.

An indispensable resource for students and scholars, 'The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms' features a diverse array of essays that treat the Psalms from a variety of perspectives. Classical scholarship and approaches as well as contextual interpretations and practices are well represented. The coverage is uniquely wide ranging.

The Psalms: an overview / William P. Brown -- Mesopotamian parallels to the Psalms / Anna Elise Zernecke -- Canaanite backgrounds to the Psalms / Mark S. Smith -- Egyptian backgrounds to the Psalms / Bernd U. Schipper -- Poetry of the Psalms / F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp -- The Psalms in poetry / Peter S. Hawkins -- Language of lament in the Psalms / Carleen Mandolfo -- Praise and metonymy in the Psalms / Travis J. Bott -- Wisdom language in the Psalms / Diane Jacobson -- The Aramaic Psalter / David M. Stec -- The Septuagint Psalter / Joachim Schaper -- Jerome's Psalters / Scott Goins -- The Levites and the editorial composition of the Psalms / Susan E. Gillingham -- On the ordering of Psalms as demonstrated by Psalms 136-150 / Yair Zakovitch -- Unrolling the Dead Sea Psalms scrolls / Peter W. Flint -- Some aspects of traditional Jewish Psalms interpretation / Alan Cooper -- Psalms in the New Testament / Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll -- Psalms in the Qurʼan and in the Islamic religious imagination / Walid A. Saleh -- Reception of the Psalms: the example of Psalm 91 / Brennan Breed -- Psalms and the question of genre / William H. Bellinger, Jr. -- Psalms of the temple / Richard J. Clifford -- Non-temple Psalms: the cultic setting revisited / Erhard S. Gerstenberger -- The shape and shaping of the Psalter: Psalms in their literary context / J. Clinton McCann, Jr. -- The meta-narrative of the Psalter / Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford -- Ancient Near Eastern iconography and the Psalms / Joel M. LeMon -- Rhetoric of the Psalms / Robert L. Foster -- Poetic attachment: psychology, psycholinguistics, and the Psalms / Brent A. Strawn -- Feminist interpretation of the Psalms / Melody D. Knowles -- Kingship in the book of Psalms / Norman K. Gottwald -- Singing a subversive song: Psalm 137 and "colored Pompey" / Rodney S. Sadler, Jr. -- Rising from generation to generation: lament, Hope, consciousness, home, and dream / John J. Ahn -- Psalms in Latin America / Edesio Sanchez -- Jewish theology of the Psalms / Marc Zvi Brettler -- Christian theology of the Psalms / Rolf A. Jacobson -- On "being human" in the Psalms / Walter Brueggemann -- The righteous and the wicked / Jerome F.D. Creach -- The Psalms in Christian worship / Kimberly Bracken Long -- Preaching Psalms / Thomas G. Long -- Singing the Psalms / Michael Morgan -- Psalms as resources for pastoral care / Carol L. Schnabl Schweitzer -- The Psalms: a monastic perspective / Edmée Kingsmill SLG -- Ecological use of the Psalms / David Rensberger -- "Apocryphal" Psalms in the Psalms scrolls and in texts incorporating Psalms / Peter W. Flint -- Contents of the Psalms scrolls and related manuscripts / Peter W. Flint.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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