Portraits of the righteous in the Psalms
Subtitle: an exploration of the ethics of book I
By: Daniel C. Owens
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781620329689
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Ethics in the Bible; Bible
Description: What have the Psalms to do with ethics? Readers prize the Psalter for its richly theological prayers, but into these prayers are woven a variety of ethical issues. This book explores the ethics of the Psalter by examining the four portraits of the righteous person that punctuate Book I. It begins by studying these psalms as individual compositions and then employs both the canonical approach and dialogic criticism to identify the complex relationship between the portraits' vision of the righteous life and its outcome. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-239).