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.

fears, the censured questions, the deepest hates, the unknown and unadmitted venom, and a yearning; whereas the lament as praise anticipates and is open to gift. It looks ahead, consents to receive, and intends to respond in gratitude.59 The two functions, as the two hermeneutics, belong together. So Ricoeur can speak of the two together as regressive-progressive in a way whereby the remembrance gives rise to anticipation.60 He sees the two as linked and the process as “inherently dialectical.”61

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