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Psalms, Part 1: With an Introduction to Cultic Poetry is unavailable, but you can change that!

Erhard Gerstenberger begins this volume with an examination of the nature of cultic poetry, its role in ancient Near Eastern religion, and more specifically its role in the religion of Israel. He goes on to survey the genres of cultic poetry, including lament, complaint, and thanksgiving, and then focuses on the book of Psalms as an example of cultic poetry, first analyzing the book as a whole...

duty). Second, he describes his own incessant toil to reestablish contact with his God (v. 3, using first person of supplicant and reporting futile prayer; see Pss 6:7–8 [RSV 6–7]; 38:7–9 [RSV 6–8]; 88:2, 10 [RSV 1, 9]; 102:6–8 [RSV 5–7]; 130:1; 141:1). The supplicant seems to head directly for a full-fledged ritual argument with his personal God, which may loom behind Psalms 6, 73, and 88; or Psalms 7, 17, and 26. Also, the Job literature of the ancient Near East has preserved this contest motif
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