a hard-won and long-term development in scholarship, the work of Brevard S. Childs is perhaps the epitome of a shifted perspective wherein interpreters are more free and more responsible to read the biblical text “as Scripture.” In my own case, as with many other interpreters, the more arid enterprise of genre analysis (a work surely to be continued, but always a step along the way in interpretation) has given way to a thicker reception of the Psalms as acts of faith, acts of worship, and acts of