Psalms Through the Centuries
Subtitle: Volume 1.
Series: Blackwell Bible Commentaries, v.1; Blackwell Bible Commentaries, v.1
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chichester
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780470691083
Description: This is the first of a two-volume bible commentary covering the Psalms and examining the role of these biblical poems throughout Jewish and Christian history.:.; Provides a fascinating introduction to the literary, historical, and theological background of psalmody.; Examines the psalms through liturgy and prayer, study and preaching, translation. and imitation, and musical composition and artistic illustration.; Includes illustrations of significant psalms, helpful maps, and an extensive bibliography.; A forthcoming second volume is planned, which will take an alternative psalm-by-psalm appro.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Psalms Through the Centuries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Works Cited; Introduction: Towards a Reception-History Commentary on the Psalms; 1 The Eleventh Century BCE to the Fifth Century CE: Translation, Exposition, Instruction, Liturgy and the Prophetic Bias; 2 The Fifth to Eleventh Centuries: Liturgy, Exposition, Artistic Representation; 3 The Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries: Learning and Discerning; 4 The Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries: Democratization and Dissemination; 5 The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Secularization and Revitalization.