TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wardlaw,Terrance Randall
TI  - Elohim within the Psalms: petitioning the creator to order chaos in oral-derived literature 
T2  - Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies
SN  - 9780567656575
AV  - BM610 .E464 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Bloomsbury T&T Clark
KW  - Bible
KW  - Psalms
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - God (Judaism)
KW  - Name
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - "The issue of the so-called Elohistic Psalter has intrigued biblical scholars since the rise of the historical-critical enterprise. Scholars have attempted to discover why the name Elohim is used almost exclusively within Pss 42-83, and in particular they have attempted to identify the historical circumstances which explain this phenomenon. Traditionally, an original Yhwh was understood to have been replaced by Elohim. Frank-Lothar Hossfeld and the late Erich Zenger propose that the use of the title Elohim is theologically motivated, and they account for this phenomenon in their redaction-historical work. Wardlaw here builds upon their work (1) by integrating insights from Dell Hymes, William Miles Foley, and Susan Niditch with regard to oral-traditional cultures, and (2) by following the text-linguistic approach of Eep Talstra and Christof Hardmeier and listening to canonical texture as a faithful witness to Israel's religious traditions. Wardlaw proposes that the name Elohim within the Psalms is a theologically-laden term, and that its usage is related to pentateuchal traditions"--
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