Psalms

Part 2

and

Lamentations

ERHARD S. GERSTENBERGER

The Forms of the Old Testament Literature

VOLUME XV

Rolf P. Knierim, Gene M. Tucker, and
Marvin A. Sweeney, editors

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.

© 2001 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

ISBN 0-8028-0488-8

Contents

Abbreviations and Symbols

Editors’ Foreword

Author’s Preface

Additional Bibliography

PSALMS, part 2

Chapter 3 The Individual Units of Book 2 (Cont.)
(Psalms 61–72)

Chapter 4 The Individual Units of Book 3
(Psalms 73–89)

Chapter 5 The Individual Units of Book 4
(Psalms 90–106)

Chapter 6 The Individual Units of Book 5
(Psalms 107–150)

LAMENTATIONS

Chapter 7 Introduction to the Book of Lamentations

Chapter 8 The Individual Units of the Book of Lamentations

Glossary

Genres

Formulas

Abbreviations and Symbols

I. Miscellaneous Abbreviations and Symbols

cf. compare

ch(s). chapter(s)

D Deuteronomic source

diss. dissertation

Dtr Deuteronomistic source

E Elohistic source

ed(s). editor(s), edited by, edition

e.g. for example

esp. especially

et al. et alii (and others)

Fest. Festschrift

Heb. Hebrew

i.e. id est (that is)

LXX Septuagint

MS(S) manuscript(s)

MT Masoretic Text

nf, ns Neue Folge, New Series (in serial listings)

no. number

NT New Testament

OT Old Testament

P Priestly source

p(p). page(s)

repr. reprint

tr. translated by

v(v). verse(s)

vol(s). volume(s)

→ The arrow indicates a cross-reference to another section of the commentary

§(§) section(s)

II. Publications

AB Anchor Bible

ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary

AHW W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (3 vols.; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1965–81)

AJSL American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures

Alt, KS A. Alt, Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte des Volkes Israel (3 vols.; Munich: Beck, 1953–59)

AnBib Analecta biblica

ANET J. B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (3rd ed.; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969)

AnOr Analecta orientalia

AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament

ARE J. H. Breasted, ed., Ancient Records of Egypt (5 vols.; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906–7)

ASTI Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute

ATANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments

ATD Das Alte Testament Deutsch

ATR Anglican Theological Review

AUSS Andrews University Seminary Studies

BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

BBB Bonner biblische Beiträge

BDB F. Brown, S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (rev. ed.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957)

BE Biblische Enzyklopädie

BeO Bibbia e oriente

BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium

BEvT Beiträge zur evangelischen Theologie

BHH B. Reicke and L. Rost, eds., Biblisch-historisches Handwörterbuch (4 vols.; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962–66)

BHK...