Jewish and Christian approaches to the Psalms : conflict and convergence /
edited by Susan Gillingham.
- xix, 271 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part I. Jewish and Christian responses tot he Psalms -- ch. 1. The Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls : Psalms manuscripts, editions, and the Oxford Hebrew Bible / Peter W. Flint -- ch. 2. Reflections on the Canon and the text of the Bible in response to Peter Flint / Geza Vermes -- ch. 3. Medieval answers to modern questions : medieval Jewish interpreters of Psalms -- ch. 4. Medieval Psalms exegesis as a challenge to modern exegesis : a response to Adele Berlin / Corinna Korting -- ch. 5. The reception of Psalm 137 in Jewish and Christian traditions / Susan Gillingham -- ch. 6. Psalm 137 : unlikely liturgy or partisan poem : a response to Sue Gillingham / Jonathan Magonet -- ch. 7. The liturgical Psalter in medieval Europe / Elizabeth Solopova -- ch. 8. True lights : seeing the Psalms through Chagall's church windows / Aaron Rosen -- ch. 9. How can we sing the Lord's song? deciphering the Masoretic Cantillation / David C. Mitcell -- The Psalms in Judaism and Chrstianity : a reception history perspective / John F. A. Sawyer -- Part II. Reading the Psalter -- ch. 11. The Psalter as theodicy writ large / W. H. Bellinger, Jr. -- ch. 12. The Psalter and theodicy : perspectives related to a rhetorical approach / Dirk Human -- ch. 13. The Psalter as a book / Klaus Seybold -- ch. 14. The proto-MT Psalter, the king, and Psalms 1 and 2 : a response to Klaus Seybold -- ch. 15. 'Traduttore traditore', Beowulf and the Psalms : a response to Nancy deClaisse-Walford / Philip S. Johnston -- Part III. Past contexts and future perspectives -- ch. 17. Psalm 104 and Akhenaten's hymn to the sun / John Day -- The Psalms and Sumerian hymns / Erhard Gerstenberger -- Problems and prospects in Psalter studies / Frank-Lothar Hossfeld and Till Magnus Steiner -- Postcript / John Barton.