Soundings in the Theology of Psalms: Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship (Biblia.com)

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The many introductions to the psalms available to readers tend to focus on various types and forms of psalms but overlook different theological approaches to the Psalter. This volume brings together leading psalms scholars from Catholic and Protestant traditions and takes into account recent scholarship on the shape and shaping of the Psalter and on the rhetorical interpretation of the Psalms.

book of Psalms and, as Gerhard von Rad said, “There is absolutely no concept in the Old Testament with so central a significance for all the relationships of human life as that of” righteousness.4 I will suggest therefore that the concern for the destiny of the righteous has potential to serve as the primary theological context for other subjects that have received more attention in recent years, subjects such as the reign of God and the divine attempt to establish justice and peace.5 The words righteous

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