Table of Contents

Susan Gillingham: Introduction
I: Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms
1: Peter Flint: The Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls. Psalms Manuscripts, Editions, and the Oxford Hebrew Bible
2: Geza Vermes: Reflections on the Canon and the Text of the Bible in response to Peter Flint
3: Adele Berlin: Medieval Answers to Modern Questions. Medieval Jewish Interpreters of Psalms
4: Corinna Körting: Medieval Psalms Exegesis as a Challenge to Modern Exegesis: A Response to Adele Berlin
5: Susan Gillingham: The Reception of Psalm 137 in Jewish and Christian Traditions
6: Jonathan Magonet: Psalm 137 - Unlikely Liturgy or Partisan Poem? A Response to Sue Gillingham
7: Elizabeth Solopova: The Liturgical Psalter in Medieval Europe
8: Aaron Rosen: True Lights: Seeing the Psalms through Chagall's Church Windows
9: David C. Mitchell: How Can We Sing the Lord's Song? Deciphering the Masoretic Cantillation
10: John Sawyer: The Psalms in Judaism and Christianity. A Reception History Perspective
II: Reading the Psalter
11: Bill Bellinger, Jr.: The Psalter as Theodicy Writ Large
12: Dirk Human: The Psalter and Theodicy. Perspectives Related to a Rhetorical Approach.
13: Klaus Seybold: The Psalter as a Book
14: David Howard, Jr.: The Proto-mt Psalter, the King, and Psalms 1 and 2. A response to Klaus Seybold.
15: Nancy deClaissé Walford: On Translating the Poetry of the Psalms
16: Philip Johnston: Traduttore Traditore, Beowulf and the Psalms. A Response to Nancy Declaissé Walford.
III: Past Contexts and Future Perspectives
17: John Day: Psalm 104 and Akhenaten's Hymn to the Sun
18: Erhard Gerstenberger: The Psalms and Sumerian Hymns
19: Frank-Lothar Hossfeld and Till Magnus Steiner: Problems and Prospects in Psalter Studies
20: John Barton: Postscript

About the Author

Susan Gillingham is Fellow and Tutor in Theology, Worcester College, Oxford; Reader in Old Testament, Oxford University.

Reviews

This is indeed a helpful and stimulating examination of a number of themes in contemporary study of the Psalter.
*David G. Firth, The Journal of Theological Studies,*

The book is beautifully produced, and is a fine contribution to current work on the psalms.
*John Rogerson, Church Times*