The Book of Psalms: Composition and Reception (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum)

Written by leading experts in the field as well as some younger scholars, The Book of Psalms: Composition and Reception offers a wide-ranging treatment of the main aspects of Psalms study. The almost 30 essays consist of two overall sections. The first section contains studies of a more general nature; commentary on or interpretation of specific Psalms; social setting; and the Psalter as book. The second section contains essays on the literary context of the Psalter (including Qumran texts); textual history and reception in Judaism and Christianity; and the theology of the Psalter. The volume ends with a cumulative bibliography and several useful indices. THE BOOK OF PSALMS: Composition and Reception......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 List of Contributors......Page 10 Terms, Sigla and Abbreviations......Page 12 Patrick D. Miller and Peter W. Flint: Introduction and Overview of Psalms Scholarship in this Volume......Page 22 Part I: GENERAL TOPICS......Page 30 WAS HEIßT KÖNIGSPSALMEN UND WAS WAR IHRE FUNKTION?......Page 32 KLEINPSALTER UND EXEMTE KÖNIGSPSALMEN......Page 35 DAS KÖNIGSORAKEL IN PSALM 89, EINER QUMRANHANDSCHRIFT UND 2 SAM 7......Page 42 DIE ARAMÄISCHE ENTSPRECHUNG ZU PSALM 20.......Page 55 PAPYROS AMHERST 63......Page 58 WAS NÜTZT DEM VOLK EIN KÖNIG?......Page 68 LITERATURVERZEICHNIS......Page 73 PSALMS WITH HEADINGS THAT MENTION DAVID......Page 76 EXPANDED SUPERSCRIPTIONS THAT MENTION DAVID......Page 77 DAVID IN BOOK II OF THE PSALTER......Page 81 DAVID AND THE TEXT (BODY) OF VARIOUS PSALMS......Page 83 IMAGES OF DAVID IN THE PSALTER......Page 85 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 87 Part II: COMMENTARY ON OR INTERPRETATION OF SPECIFIC PSALMS......Page 88 Adele Berlin: Psalms and the Literature of Exile: Psalms 137, 44, 69, and 78......Page 90 PSALM 137......Page 91 PSALM 44......Page 96 PSALM 69......Page 99 PSALM 78: 59-70......Page 100 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 109 STRUCTURE OF THE ALPHABETIC PSALMS......Page 112 NON-ACROSTIC ALPHABETIC POEMS......Page 114 FIVE CASE STUDIES: PSALMS 103, 58, 20, 105, AND 100......Page 115 CONCLUSION......Page 120 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 121 AN OUTLINE OF MOWINCKEL'S THEORY......Page 122 RESPONSES TO MOWINCKEL'S THEORY......Page 123 THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST MOWINCKEL'S THEORY......Page 129 CONCLUDING COMMENT......Page 138 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 139 ZUM PROBLEM DES ״STIMMUNGSUMSCHWUNGS" IN DEN PSALMEN......Page 141 1. Übersetzung......Page 146 2. Zu Gattung, Struktur, Kolometrie, Literarkritik und Datierung......Page 147 3. Zu den Klagen und Bitten (Verse 2-5)......Page 149 4. Zu ״Stimmungsumschwung" und Vertrauensbekenntnis/Dankversprechen (Vers 6)......Page 151 FAZIT UND WEITERFÜHRENDE ÜBERLEGUNGEN......Page 156 VERWENDETE LITERATUR......Page 162 Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford: An Intertextual Reading of Psalms 22, 23, and 24......Page 164 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 177 INTRODUCTION......Page 178 POETIC UNITS......Page 182 THE MEANING OF THE POEM AS EXPRESSED BY REPETITIVE AND SEMANTIC PARALLELISM......Page 189 SOME MAJOR ISSUES OF INTERPRETATION......Page 191 ONE UGARITIC VIEW OF BAAL'S RAIN-MAKING POWERS......Page 197 CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE STRUCTURE AND MEANING OF PSALM 29......Page 202 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 205 Joh S. Kselman, S.S.: Double Entendre in Psalm 59......Page 209 THE DOUBLE ENTENDRE IN THIS PSALM......Page 210 EVIDENCE CONFIRMING THIS INTERPRETATION......Page 212 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 214 Richard J. Clifford, S.J.: Psalm 90: Wisdom Meditation or Communal Lament?......Page 215 PSALM 39......Page 217 PSALM 90......Page 221 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 230 BASIC STRUCTURE......Page 231 Evidence from Part I......Page 232 Evidence from Part II......Page 242 SHIFTING THE FOCUS OF PSALM 101......Page 245 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 247 Sung-Hun Lee: Lament and the Joy of Salvation in the Lament Psalms......Page 249 PAST INTERPRETATIONS OF THE TRANSITION......Page 250 THE MEANING OF ḤESED......Page 251 1. Conditional Aspect......Page 252 2. Unconditional Aspect......Page 255 Hebr. חסד IN THE INDIVIDUAL LAMENT ( ״IL ״) PSALMS......Page 258 PSALM 130......Page 264 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 271 I. TEMPLE ENTRY LITURGIES: PSALMS 15 AND 24......Page 273 II. PSALMS 5, 26, 28, 36, AND 52: THEIR MUTUAL AFFINITIES TO PSALMS 15 AND 24......Page 278 PSALM 5......Page 279 PSALM 26......Page 286 PSALM 28......Page 291 PSALM 36......Page 295 PSALM 52......Page 300 PSALM 73......Page 305 III. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS......Page 309 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 312 THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF INSET HYMNS......Page 313 THE ROLES OF INSET HYMNS......Page 314 POETRY, PARALLELS, AND LITERARY CONVENTIONS......Page 320 SCRIPTURE, WISDOM, AND PERFORMANCE......Page 328 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 333 Part III: THE PSALTER AS BOOK, INCLUDING SMALLER COLLECTIONS......Page 336 Harry P. Nasuti: The Interpretive Significance of Sequence and Selection in the Book of Psalms......Page 338 SEQUENCE AND THE PSALMS: INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS......Page 340 THE FIGURE OF DAVID AND THE SEQUENCE OF THE PSALMS......Page 341 ISRAEL'S HISTORY AND THE SEQUENCE OF THE PSALMS......Page 343 SEQUENCE AND THE "LIFE OF FAITH" IN MODERN SCHOLARSHIP......Page 348 SEQUENCE AND THE "LIFE OF FAITH": INSIGHTS FROM THE INTERPRETIVE TRADITION......Page 351 The Psalms of Ascents......Page 355 Hallel, Tamid, and Other Groups of Selected Psalms......Page 357 CONCLUSIONS......Page 360 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 363 J. Clinton McCann, Jr.: The Shape of Book I of the Psalter and the Shape of Human Happiness......Page 367 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 375 THE KORAH COLLECTION......Page 376 THE DAVIDIC COLLECTION......Page 386 A COMBINED FESTAL SETTING......Page 392 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 393 Klaus D. Sebold: Zur Geschichte des vierten Davidpsalters (Pss 138-145)......Page 395 DIE ANGABEN DER ÜBERSCHRIFTEN......Page 397 DIE ZUEIGNUNGSFORMEL......Page 399 ZUR VERWENDUNG DER TEXTE......Page 401 ZUR HERKUNFT DER TEXTE......Page 404 GEFANGENSCHAFTSPSALMEN......Page 406 GERICHTLICHE VERFAHREN?......Page 409 WER WAREN DIE VERFASSER?......Page 414 LITERATUR IN AUSWAHL......Page 416 REVIEW OF THE THESIS......Page 418 2. Date of the Final Redaction......Page 420 3. The Function of Psalm 1 as Introduction......Page 421 4. The Presence of Highly Davidic Psalms in Books Four and Five......Page 423 5. The Assumption of a Messianic Reading of the Royal Psalms......Page 427 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 432 PSALM 29 ALS FESTHYMNUS DER VOREXILISCHEN TEMPELLITURGIE......Page 434 Psalm 28......Page 443 Psalm 30......Page 444 DIE AUFNAHME VON PS 29 DURCH DIE REDAKTOREN DER FRÜHNACHEXILISCHEN ״TEMPELKANTATE" PS 93* 95* 96* 98 100......Page 449 Psalm 93......Page 450 Psalm 96......Page 451 Psalm 98......Page 452 Psalm 100......Page 453 DIE KOMPOSITION PS 93-100 ALS ABSCHLUSS EINES PSALTERS PS 2-100*: VOM RITUAL ZUR POESIE......Page 465 VERWENDETE LITERATUR......Page 466 Part IV: TEXTUAL HISTORY AND RECEPTION IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY......Page 470 Albert Pietersma: Septuagintal Exegesis and the Superscriptions of the Greek Psalter......Page 472 THE CONSTITUTIVE CHARACTER OF THE TRANSLATED TEXT......Page 474 SOME NECESSARY DISTINCTIONS......Page 476 TRANSLATION AS INTERPRETATION......Page 480 Level 0: "Interpretation" by Transcription......Page 482 Level 1: Interpretation at the Word Level......Page 484 Level 2: Interpretation at the Phrase Level......Page 487 Level 3: Interpretation at the Sentence Level......Page 500 Level 4: Interpretation at the Paragraph Level......Page 501 CONCLUSION......Page 502 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 503 INTRODUCTION......Page 505 Provenance......Page 506 Function and Significance......Page 508 Similes......Page 510 Specification of Speakers......Page 514 "HISTORICIZATION" IN THE TARGUM OF PSALMS......Page 520 WELTANSCHAUUNG/ THEOLOGY......Page 524 Prayer in the Targum of Psalms......Page 526 Sacrifice in the Targum of Psalms......Page 529 CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 531 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 532 ORIGINS OF THE SYRIAC BIBLE......Page 534 SUBSEQUENT SYRIAC TRANSLATIONS/ REVISIONS......Page 539 TRANSMITTING TEXTUAL TRADITIONS......Page 545 CASE STUDIES FROM THE PSALTER......Page 546 1. PSALM 24(23)......Page 547 3. PSALM 9:9(8)......Page 559 4. PSALM 25(24):7......Page 560 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 561 APPENDIX: Excerpts from the Apparatus of Rahlfs' Psalmi cum Odis......Page 564 Harry F. van Roy: The Psalms in Early Syriac Tradition......Page 566 THE PSALMS IN SYRIAC TRANSLATION......Page 567 THE HEADINGS OF THE PSALMS IN THE SYRIAC TRADITION......Page 571 COMMENTARIES ON THE PSALMS AND PSALMS IN COMMENTARIES......Page 575 APOCRYPHAL PSALMS......Page 577 CONCLUSION......Page 578 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 579 INTRODUCTION......Page 580 JESUS AND THE PSALMS......Page 582 1. The Triumphal Entry......Page 585 2. The Parable of the Vineyard......Page 586 3. The Question of David's "Son"......Page 589 4. The Lament Psalms in the Passion......Page 594 THE EARLY CHURCH AND THE PSALMS......Page 597 2. Not abandoning the Holy One......Page 598 3. Ascending and Descending with a Shout......Page 601 4. Giving Gifts to Humanity......Page 605 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 607 Part V: THEOLOGY OF THE PSALTER......Page 610 THE INCOMPARABILITY OF GOD IN THE PSALTER......Page 612 THE RELATIONAL GOD OF THE PSALTER......Page 615 THE URGENCY OF LAMENT IN THE PSALTER......Page 619 THE PSALTER IN THE COMMUNITY......Page 624 THE PSALTER IN THE CANON......Page 629 CONCLUSION......Page 630 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 632 POINTS OF DEPARTURE......Page 634 LIFE-SETTINGS......Page 635 PERSONAL GOD, FAMILY, AND NEIGHBORHOOD RELIGION......Page 639 FAITH IN SOCIETY AT LARGE......Page 646 THE ONLY GOD OF THE EXCLUSIVE CONGREGATION......Page 650 CONCLUSIONS FOR OUR WORLD......Page 654 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 655 1. Scripture Index......Page 660 2. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha......Page 694 3. Dead Sea Scrolls......Page 695 4. Other Ancient Writings......Page 697 5. Modern Authors......Page 702 Back Matter......Page 714 This Volume Offers A Wide-ranging Treatment Of The Main Aspects Of Psalms Study. The Almost Thirty Essays - By Leading Experts In The Field As Well As Some Younger Scholars - Consist Of Two Overall Sections. The First Section Contains Studies Of A More General Nature; Commentary On Or Interpretation Of Specific Psalms; Social Setting; And The Psalter As Book. The Second Section Contains Essays On The Literary Context Of The Psalter (including The Qumran Texts); Textual History And Reception In Judaism And Christianity; And The Theology Of The Psalter. The Volume Ends With A Cumulative Bibliography And Several Useful Indices.--book Jacket. Introduction And Overview Of Psalms Scholarship In This Volume / Patrick D. Miller, Peter W. Flint -- Königspsalmen Und Ihr Ritueller Hintergrund: Erwägungen Zu Ps 89,20-38 Und Ps 20 Und Ihren Vorstufen / Klaus Koch -- The Psalms Of David: David In The Psalms / Rolf Rendtorff -- Psalms And The Literature Of Exile: Psalms 137, 44, 69, And 78 / Adele Berlin -- Non-acrostic Alphabetic Psalms / David Noel Freedman And David Miano -- Mowinckel's Enthronement Festival: A Review / J.j.m. Roberts -- Zum Sogennanten Stimmungsumschwung In Psalm 13 / Beat Weber -- An Intertextual Reading Of Psalms 22, 23, And 24 / Nancy L. Declaissé-walford -- On Psalm 29: Structure And Meaning / D. Pardee -- Double Entendre In Psalm 59 / John S. Kselman -- Psalm 90: Wisdom Meditation Or Communal Lament? / Richard J. Clifford -- The Shifting Focus Of Psalm 101 / Michael L. Barré -- Lament And The Joy Of Salvation In The Lament Psalms / Sung-hun Lee -- Psalms Concerning The Liturgies Of Temple Entry / Craig C. Broyles -- Biblical Psalms Outside The Psalter / James W. Watts -- The Interpretive Significance Of Sequence And Selection In The Book Of Psalms / Harry P. Nasuti -- The Shape Of Book I Of The Psalter And The Shape Of Human Happiness / J. Clinton Mccann, Jr. -- The Social Setting Of Book Ii Of The Psalter / Michael Goulder -- Zur Geschichte Des Vierten Davidpsalters (pss 138-145) / Klaus D. Seybold -- King, Messiah, And The Reign Of God: Revisiting The Royal Psalms And The Shape Of The Psalter / Gerald H. Wilson -- Theophanien Des Königsgottes Jhwh: Transformationen Von Psalm 29 In Den Teilkompositionen Ps 28-30 Und Ps 93-100 / Erich Zenger -- Septuagintal Exegesis And The Superscriptions Of The Greek Psalter / Albert Pietersma -- A Jewish Reading Of Psalms: Some Observations On The Method Of The Aramaic Targum / Moshe J. Bernstein -- The Place Of The Syriac Versions In The Textual History Of The Psalter / Robert J.v. Hiebert -- The Psalms In Early Syriac Tradition / Harry F. Van Rooy -- Praise And Prophecy In The Psalter And In The New Testament / Craig A. Evans -- The Psalms In Theological Use: On Incommensurability And Mutuality / Walter Brueggemann -- Theologies In The Book Of Psalms / Erhard S. Gerstenberger. Edited By Peter W. Flint And Patrick D. Miller, Jr. ; With The Assistance Of Aaron Brunell And Ryan Roberts. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.