Susan Gillingham

Psalms Through the Centuries, Volume 1

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Produktbeschreibung

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; an expanded bibliography to accompany the book is also available at www.wiley.com/go/gillingham
A forthcoming second volume is planned, which will take an alternative psalm-by-psalm approach
Now available in paperback, and published in the innovative reception-history series, Blackwell Bible Commentaries

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Bible Commentaries .1
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780470674901
• ISBN-10: 0470674903
• Artikelnr.: 34438382

Autorenporträt

Susan Gillingham is Fellow and Tutor in Theology at Worcester College and is Reader in the Old Testament at the University of Oxford. She has written various books and articles on the Psalms and Biblical Interpretation, including The Poems and Psalms of the Hebrew Bible (1994), One Bible, Many Voices: Different Approaches to Biblical Studies (1998) and The Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix Series Editors' Preface xi Preface xiii Works
Cited xv Introduction: Towards a Reception-History Commentary on the Psalms
1 1 The Eleventh Century BCE to the Fifth Century CE: Translation,
Exposition, Instruction, Liturgy and the Prophetic Bias 5 Jewish Reception
5 From Composition to Compilation to Translation 5 Exposition: The
Prophetic Bias 9 Instruction through Imitations of Psalms 11 Christian
Reception 13 The Psalms as Prophecies in the New Testament 14 The Psalms as
Prophecies in the Church Fathers 24 Alexandrian Commentators 28 Liturgical
Adaptations of the Psalms 40 Christian Liturgy 40 Jewish Liturgy 43
Concluding Observations 46 2 The Fifth to Eleventh Centuries: Liturgy,
Exposition, Artistic Representation 47 Christian Reception 47 Liturgy 47
Exposition, Homily, Translation 55 Artistic Representation 62 Jewish
Reception 68 Liturgy 68 Translation, Exposition, Homily 71 Artistic
Representation 75 Concluding Observations 75 3 The Eleventh to Fifteenth
Centuries: Learning and Discerning 77 Jewish and Christian Controversies
through Exegetical Works 77 Preliminary Considerations 77 Jewish
Commentators 82 Christian Commentators 87 Christian and Jewish Artists 95
Christian Illumination 95 Jewish Illumination 104 Christian and Jewish
Didactic Works 113 Christian Writers 113 Jewish Writers 117 Christian and
Jewish Liturgy 120 Christian Adaptations 120 Jewish Adaptations 123
Translation in Christian Tradition 123 Concluding Observations 130 4 The
Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries: Democratization and Dissemination 131
Reception as Translation: Christian Responses 131 Commentary, Liturgy,
Homily and Translation on the Continent 131 Liturgy, Homily and Translation
in England and Scotland 146 Reception as Aesthetic Representation: Jewish
and Christian Responses 163 Jewish Reception through Art and Music 163
Christian Reception through Art, Literary Imitation and Music 166
Concluding Observations 190 5 The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries:
Secularization and Revitalization 192 Christian Responses 194 Exegetical
Works 194 Devotional Works 203 Musical Reception 220 Reception through
Liturgy 228 Translations of Psalmody 230 Jewish Responses 234 Reception as
Translation and Liturgy 234 Reception as Homily and Exegesis 237 Aesthetic
Responses 239 Concluding Observations 240 6 The Twentieth to Twenty-First
Centuries: Pluralism and Ecumenism 242 Christian and Jewish Translations of
Psalmody 246 Liturgy and Psalmody in Christian and Jewish Traditions 254
Exegetical Studies, Christian and Jewish 266 Devotional Works, Christian
and Jewish 282 Aesthetic Responses, Christian and Jewish 290 Concluding
Observations 307 Conclusion: From Introduction to Commentary 309 Glossary
313 References 322 Index of Psalms 351 Index of Names 361 Subject Index 368

Rezensionen

"Dr Gillingham has already published widely on the Psalms, and we look forward to her second volume." (Journal of Theological Studies, 1 October 2013)

"A most impressive piece of work ...The coverage is truly encyclopaedic in scope and nothing seems to have escaped Gillingham's attention." --Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

"Gillingham meticulously masters the diverse reception history of the psalms ... Every page is bursting with solid research and influential insight. An invaluable addition to the field."
--Religious Studies Review

"This wonderful book whets the appetite both for its second volume, and for more volumes of this valuable series ... [A] highly innovative and promising project."
--International Review of Biblical Studies