The return of the King
Subtitle: Messianic expectation in Book V of the Psalter
By: Michael K. Snearly
Series: The library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 624; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 624.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780567664334; 9780567664358
Subjects: Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Messianic Psalms; Royal Psalms; Prophecies; Messiah
Description: The clear structure of psalm groups in Psalms 107-150 can be interpreted as signaling a renewed hope in the royal/Davidic promises. Each psalm group of Book V is organized around a theme or key word that is related to the royal/Davidic hope in the earlier sections of the Psalter: Psalms 107-118; Psalm 119; Psalms 120-137; Psalms 138-145; Psalms 146-150. These words and themes figure prominently at the major seam psalms of the Psalter - Psalms 1-2 and 89. Thus, the content and subject matter at the end of the Psalter is integrally related to the content and subject matter at the beginning. The editorial-critical method used by Snearly is an extension of the method used by David M. Howard, Jr. in The Structure of Psalms 93-100. Snearly also draws from recent insights in the fields of poetics and text-linguistics in order to establish a linguistically based foundation for reading the Psalter as a unified text. The methodology emphasizes parallel features, with special focus on key-word links. This method advances editorial criticism by not only discerning links within a group but also showing that those links do not occur with the same frequency outside of the group
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: The return of the king; title: pt. 1. Background; title: Editorial criticism's crisis of credibility; title: Picking up the pieces : best practices in editorial criticism; title: New avenues : the way forward for editorial criticism; title: pt. 2. Book V in perspective; title: Research on Book V : the state of the field; title: Reading from the beginning : the book of Psalms as book; title: pt. 3. Research analysis; title: Forever faithful : Yahweh's covenant loyalty in Psalms 107-118; title: Yahweh's Torah and the king : royal emphasis in Psalm 119; title: Return to Zion : the locus of Messianic rule in Psalms 120-137; title: The end mirrors the beginning : the Davidic connection between Books I-III and Psalms 138-145; title: Coda : Psalms 146-150 as the conclusion of the Psalter; title: pt. 4. Conclusion. Messianic hope in comparable Jewish literature; title: Appendix: Psalms 114-115 as one psalm.