Psalms and prayers
Subtitle: papers read at the Joint Meeting of the Society of Old Testament Study and Het Oudtestamentische Werkgezelschap in Nederland en België, Apeldoorn August 2006
By: edited by Bob Becking and Eric Peels.
Contributors: Becking, Bob.; Peels, Eric.
Series: Oudtestamentische studiën -- Old Testament studies -- v. 55; Oudtestamentische studiën -- d. 55.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9789004160323
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses; Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms -- Language, style -- Congresses; Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms -- Criticism, Redaction -- Congresses
Notes: "The papers collected in this volume were all read at the Joint Meeting of The Society for Old Testament Study (SOTS) and the Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland en Belgie (OTW), in Apeldoorn, 21-24 August 2006.  The Dutch and British Old Testament Societies foster a long tradition of Joint Meetings, of which this was the 13th since the start in 1970, now hosted by the Theological University of Apeldoorn." Netherlands.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Eric Peels; title: Psalms and prayers in the Book of Chronicles / Pancratius C. Beentjes; title: "Our father ...": an inherited title and its presence (or absence) in the Psalms? / Adrian H.W. Curtis; title: The ark and the cherubim in the Psalms / John Day; title: The Hodayot's use of the Psalter: text-critical contributions (Book I) / John Elwolde; title: Psalm 103: design, boundaries, and mergers / Jan Fokkelman; title: Are idols hiding in Psalm 139:20? / Jan Holman; title: Inside out Psalm 55: how Jonah grew out of a Psalmist's conceit / Alastair G. Hunter; title: The demarcation of hymns and prayers in the Prophets (2) / Marjo C.A. Korpel; title: Psalm 69: the petitioner's understanding of himself, his God, and his enemies / Christiane de Vos and Gert Kwakkel; title: Argumenta ad deum in the plague prayers of Mursili II and in the Book of Psalms / Paul Sanders; title: The discourse of praying: reading Nehemiah I / Eep Talstra; title: Sing to the Lord a new song / Roger Tomes; title: The prayer of Isaiah and the sundial of Ahaz (2 Kgs 20:11) / Jaap van Dorp; title: King and community: joining with David in prayer / Howard N. Wallace; title: Prayer and practice in the Psalms / Gordon Wenham.