You who live in the shelter of the Most High (Ps. 91:1)

The Use of Psalms in Jewish and Christian Traditions

Ida Fröhlich, Nóra Dávid, Gerhard Langer, Ida Fröhlich, Nóra Dávid, Gerhard Langer

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9783847112365
• eBook ISBN: 9783847012368
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Biography

Biblical Psalms are a common heritage of Jewish and Christian cultures. Serving for the common liturgy of the Jerusalem Temple and individual prayers since biblical times they inspired Hebrew poetical language. The Qumran community, as well as Jewish and Christian communities of Late Antiquity attributed to them a special authority and apotropaic function. Quoted and interpreted in various ways in the New Testament and Rabbinic tradition they had a fundamental role in regular liturgies since the Middle Ages. Referred to in medical texts, recited on pilgrimages and at funeral vigils they represented an important aspect of folk religion and the formation of religious identity. The present volume is intended to show the many ways the Psalms were used and enjoyed a lasting popularity in regular and folk religion, collectively and individually, from antiquity until today.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Foreword
• Dolores G. Kamrada (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): “All my bones are out of joint” (Psalm 22:14). The significance of weakness and disability in the Hebrew Bible
• Ida Fröhlich (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): The Use of Psalm 91 in Qumran
• Imre Kocsis (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): Die christologische Interpretation von Ps 8 und Ps 118 im Neuen Testament
• László Perendy (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): Arguing from the Psalms: Saint Justin's Dialogue with Trypho the Jew
• Gerhard Langer (University of Vienna): Abraham at the Right Hand of God. Ps 110 in Rabbinic Tradition
• Siam Bhayro (University of Exeter): The Use of Quotations from the Psalms in the Aramaic Magic Bowls
• Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, O.Praem. (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): Fundamental Role of Psalms in continuous Jewish and Christian Liturgical Tradition, up to the Systematic Development of thee Liturgy of Hours
• Orsolya Varsányi (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): Psalms in 9th-century Arabic Christian (and Islamic) Apology
• Zsuzsa Závoti (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): Usage of Psalms in Anglo-Saxon Medicine
• Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (University of Oxford): The Usefulness of the Psalms. Byzantine Manuals for the Ritual Exploitation of the Psalter
• Zsuzsanna Olach (University of Szeged): Turkic translations of Psalm 130. A comparative analysis of three versions
• Norbert Medgyesy S. (Katholische Péter-Pázmány-Universität): Die Textauffassungen und die Rolle der Psalmen in den katholischen Gesangbüchern und Mysterienspielen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert
• Gábor Barna (University of Szeged): Use of Psalms in The Roman Catholic Folk Religion (19th–20th Century, Hungary)
• Szilvia Peremiczky (Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies, Budapest): “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem ”. Psalm 137 as Literary Code and Cultural Emblem of Identity
• List of Contributors
• Leere Seite