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The Psalms: Strophic Structure and Theological Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

In his most ambitious undertaking, the late Samuel Terrien brings together a lifetime of scholarship on the Psalms. The commentary’s clear and insightful introduction considers these important subjects on the Psalms: their longevity and ecumenicity; their Near Eastern background; the Hebrew text and ancient versions; their music; their strophic structure; their literary genre; their theology; and...

largely on the analysis of their forms.133 Nevertheless, Gunkel and his successors recognize that literary form may not be disassociated from literary contents, style, emotive accent, and existential situation.134 Although certain formal aspects of Hebraic psalmody resemble those of the hymns and prayers of the ancient Near East,135 intrinsic and cumulative differences should not be ignored. Form analysis is necessary to determine genres, but it is of relative importance. Moreover, only a few psalms
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