The Design of the Psalter: A Macrostructural Analysis - Hardcover

Ho, Peter C. W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 153265443X ISBN 13: 9781532654435

Verlag: Pickwick Publications, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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PETER C. W. HO is the academic dean of the School of Theology (English) at the Singapore Bible College, where he is also an associate professor of the Old Testament. He holds a PhD in theology and religious studies from the University of Gloucestershire, UK, and he is the author of "The Design of the Psalter: A Macrostructural Analysis" (Wipf and Stock, 2019).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pickwick Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 153265443X
• ISBN 13: 9781532654435
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 412
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland