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Psalms Through the Centuries, Volume 1
About this book
This is the first of a two-volume bible commentary covering the Psalms and examining the role of these biblical poems throughout Jewish and Christian history.
- Provides a fascinating introduction to the literary, historical, and theological background of psalmody
- Examines the psalms through liturgy and prayer, study and preaching, translation and imitation, and musical composition and artistic illustration
- Includes illustrations of significant psalms, helpful maps, and an extensive bibliography; an expanded bibliography to accompany the book is also available at www.wiley.com/go/gillingham
- A forthcoming second volume is planned, which will take an alternative psalm-by-psalm approach
- Now available in paperback, and published in the innovative reception-history series, Blackwell Bible Commentaries
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for Psalms Through the Centuries: Volume One
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication Page
- Illustrations
- Series Editorsâ Preface
- Preface
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Works Cited
- Introduction: Towards a Reception-History Commentary on the Psalms
- The Eleventh Century BCE to the Fifth Century CE: Translation, Exposition, Instruction, Liturgy and the Prophetic Bias
- The Fifth to Eleventh Centuries: Liturgy, Exposition, Artistic Representation
- The Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries: Learning and Discerning
- The Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries: Democratization and Dissemination
- The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Secularization and Revitalization
- The Twentieth to Twenty-First Centuries: Pluralism and Ecumenism
- Conclusion: From Introduction to Commentary
- Glossary
- References
- Plates
- Index of Psalms
- Index of Names
- Subject Index