Gillingham Psalms Through the Centuries, Volume One

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-24152-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 402 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Bible Commentaries

This is the first of a two-volume bible commentary covering thePsalms and examining the role of these biblical poems throughoutJewish and Christian history.
* Provides a fascinating introduction to the literary,historical, and theological background of psalmody
* Examines the psalms through liturgy and prayer, study andpreaching, translation and imitation, and musical composition andartistic illustration
* Includes illustrations of significant psalms, helpful maps, andan extensive bibliography; an expanded bibliography toaccompany the book is also available at www.wiley.com/go/gillingham
* A forthcoming second volume is planned, which will take analternative psalm-by-psalm approach
* Now available in paperback, and published in the innovativereception-history series, Blackwell Bible Commentaries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gillingham, Susan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
Series Editors' Preface xi
Preface xiii
Works Cited xv
Introduction: Towards a Reception-History Commentary on thePsalms 1
1 The Eleventh Century BCE to the Fifth Century CE:Translation, Exposition, Instruction, Liturgy and the PropheticBias 5
Jewish Reception 5
From Composition to Compilation to Translation 5
Exposition: The Prophetic Bias 9
Instruction through Imitations of Psalms 11
Christian Reception 13
The Psalms as Prophecies in the New Testament 14
The Psalms as Prophecies in the Church Fathers 24
Alexandrian Commentators 28
Liturgical Adaptations of the Psalms 40
Christian Liturgy 40
Jewish Liturgy 43
Concluding Observations 46
2 The Fifth to Eleventh Centuries: Liturgy, Exposition,Artistic Representation 47
Christian Reception 47
Liturgy 47
Exposition, Homily, Translation 55
Artistic Representation 62
Jewish Reception 68
Liturgy 68
Translation, Exposition, Homily 71
Artistic Representation 75
Concluding Observations 75
3 The Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries: Learning andDiscerning 77
Jewish and Christian Controversies through Exegetical Works77
Preliminary Considerations 77
Jewish Commentators 82
Christian Commentators 87
Christian and Jewish Artists 95
Christian Illumination 95
Jewish Illumination 104
Christian and Jewish Didactic Works 113
Christian Writers 113
Jewish Writers 117
Christian and Jewish Liturgy 120
Christian Adaptations 120
Jewish Adaptations 123
Translation in Christian Tradition 123
Concluding Observations 130
4 The Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries: Democratization andDissemination 131
Reception as Translation: Christian Responses 131
Commentary, Liturgy, Homily and Translation on the Continent131
Liturgy, Homily and Translation in England and Scotland 146
Reception as Aesthetic Representation: Jewish and ChristianResponses 163
Jewish Reception through Art and Music 163
Christian Reception through Art, Literary Imitation and Music166
Concluding Observations 190
5 The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Secularization andRevitalization 192
Christian Responses 194
Exegetical Works 194
Devotional Works 203
Musical Reception 220
Reception through Liturgy 228
Translations of Psalmody 230
Jewish Responses 234
Reception as Translation and Liturgy 234
Reception as Homily and Exegesis 237
Aesthetic Responses 239
Concluding Observations 240
6 The Twentieth to Twenty-First Centuries: Pluralism andEcumenism 242
Christian and Jewish Translations of Psalmody 246
Liturgy and Psalmody in Christian and Jewish Traditions 254
Exegetical Studies, Christian and Jewish 266
Devotional Works, Christian and Jewish 282
Aesthetic Responses, Christian and Jewish 290
Concluding Observations 307
Conclusion: From Introduction to Commentary 309
Glossary 313
References 322
Index of Psalms 351
Index of Names 361
Subject Index 368

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Gillingham is Fellow and Tutor in Theology at Worcester College and is Reader in the Old Testament at the University of Oxford. She has written various books and articles on the Psalms and Biblical Interpretation, including The Poems and Psalms of the Hebrew Bible (1994), One Bible, Many Voices: Different Approaches to Biblical Studies (1998) and The Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study (2002).