A Journey of Two Psalms: The Reception of Psalms 1 and 2 in Jewish and Christian Tradition - Hardcover

Gillingham, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199652414 ISBN 13: 9780199652419

Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK), 2013

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Críticas

Gillingham's book is a treasure trove for any exegete and scholar who is interested in these two psalms and who works with them (Frank Lothar Hossfield, The Expository Times)

Certainly, this magisterial work, with its wealth of learning, provides a challenge to those who would question the validity of this new discipline. (Canon Anthony Phillips, Church Times)

This volume is certainly an enjoyable must-read for anyone working on the Psalms or their reception, the history of Jewish-Christian relations through examination of biblical exegesis, or interested in approaches to reception history of the biblical texts more broadly. (Helen Spurling, Journal of Jewish Studies)

Immensely readable, beautifully presented, and thoroughly researched, it is a joy to read and combines detailed insights with broad relevance. It will provide the reader with both specific input into these two texts as well as an impressive overview of Psalms studies through the centuries. . . . This book deserves to delight a broad readership and to inform a considerable range of scholarship, biblical and beyond. (Megan Daffern, Journal of Theological Studies (2014))

Reseña del editor

For two-and-a-half millennia these two psalms have been commented on, translated, painted, set to music, employed in worship, and adapted in literature, often being used disputatiously by Jews and Christians alike. Psalm 1 is about the Law; at the heart of Psalm 2 is the Anointed One ('Messiah'), and together they serve as a Prologue to the rest of the Psalter. They have frequently been read as one composite poem, with the Temple as one of the motifs uniting them. So three themes―Jewish and Christian disputes, the interrelationship of these psalms, and the Temple―are interwoven throughout this reception history analysis. The journey starts in ancient Judaism, moves on to early Christianity, then to rabbinic and medieval Judaism, and so to Christian commentators from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation. The journey pauses to look at four important modes of reception―liturgical use, visual exegesis, musical interpretation, and imitation in English literature. Thirty-eight colour plates and numerous musical and poetic examples bring the work to life. The journey continues by looking at the debates about these psalms which have occupied scholars since the Enlightenment, and ends with a chapter which surveys their reception history in the light of the three key themes.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199652414
• ISBN 13: 9780199652419
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 366