Psalms Old and New
Subtitle: exegesis, intertextuality, and hermeneutics
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9781506420578
Description: Reading the Book of Psalms in its original context is the crucial prerequisite for reading its citation and use in later interpretation, including the New Testament writings, argues Ben Witherington III. Here he offers pastors, teachers, and students an accessible commentary to the Psalms, as well as a reasoned consideration of how they were heard and read in early Christianity. By reading "forward and backward," Witherington advances the scholarly discussion of intertextuality and opens a new avenue for biblical theology.
Table of contents: title: Tuning up : an introduction to the Psalter; title: The Psalter in early Judaism; title: Psalter Book 1 (Psalms 1-41) : the agony and ecstasy; title: Psalter Book 2 (Psalms 42-72) : true confessions; title: Psalter Book 3 (Psalms 73-89) : Asaph's answers; title: Psalter Book 4 (Psalms 90-106) : new songs and an old law; title: Psalter Book 5 (Psalms 107-150) : songs of praise and pilgrimage; title: "The song remains the same"; title: Appendixes.; title: Psalms references in the Nestlé-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th edition; title: LXX or old Greek, Hebrew Bible or MT?; title: Gospels, Acts and Psalms chart; title: Psalm 110:1 and related texts : a reflection on the work of Richard Bauckham