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Psalms Old and New: Exegesis, Intertextuality, and Hermeneutics is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reading the book of Psalms in its original context is the crucial prerequisite for reading its citation and use in later interpretation, including the New Testament writings, argues Ben Witherington III. Here he offers pastors, teachers, and students an accessible commentary to the Psalms, as well as a reasoned consideration of how they were heard and read in early Christianity. By reading...

the content of the Psalms (sometimes in a paraphrase) to Greek-speaking Jews?11 But there is also evidence from Qumran (see frag. 3 of 4QPsn) that psalms could be excerpted and combined into a sort of catena on the basis of similar ideas or catchword connections. The fragment in question has Psalm 135:11–12 directly followed by Psalm 136:23–24, with a link made by having Psalm 135:12a and b have a key phrase found throughout Psalm 136.12 Without question the great psalm scroll from Qumran, 11QPsa
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