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Defining the Sacred Songs: Genre, Tradition, and the Post-Critical Interpretation of the Psalms is unavailable, but you can change that!

At a time when the focus of Psalms research has increasingly shifted from the form-critical concerns of Hermann Gunkel and his followers, Defining the Sacred Songs argues for the continued importance of genre as an interpretative category in the post-critical era. Drawing on insights from the Psalms' long interpretative tradition, Nasuti is able to bring a fresh perspective on the role that the...

previous chapter, this means that one tends to make one’s genre classifications by grouping certain psalms together with other psalms that are perceived as similar in some way. The larger canon, especially its Davidic traditions, also provides a certain literary context which must be taken into account. Both of these canonical contexts will be considered further below. Conclusions One may conclude this chapter by affirming once again the force and persuasiveness of the arguments of Westermann and
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