This unique volume on the Psalms is the final Hebrew Bible installment of the Texts@Contexts series. Each contribution provides a contextual reflection on a Psalm as chosen by the contributor. These contributions take account of the contributor's own personal context or the contexts of those around them, providing readings that are varied in geographical and linguistic scope, that reflect on pressing themes such as immigration, diversity, race, marginalized voices (such as those of adults with learning disabilities) and postcolonialism. Scholars also reflect on their own contexts of research and education.

Taken together the contributions to this volume provide a sort of contextual commentary on the Psalms, gathering a wide range of voices and reflecting a diverse range of cultural afterlives of the Psalms.

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Cover
Title Page
Contents
Series Preface
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction From ’ašrey (Blessed* – Psalm 1.1) to Hallelujah (Praise Yah – Psalm 150.6)
Psalm 6: Plea, Protest, Anger, Discipline, Weariness, Deliverance
Psalm 8: The Poor and the Earth Cry Out
Psalm 8: How I Fell in Love with the Bible
Psalm 18.35: Giving David Odysseus’ Bow
Psalm 19: The Voice That is Not Heard
Psalm 20: When God Crosses Borders
Psalm 23: A Moving, Versatile Poem
Psalm 23: An Autobiographical and Intertextual Reading
Psalm 37: Living Faithfully
Psalm 39: Silence that Speaks
Psalm 46: Presence, War-language, and Feminist Direction
Psalm 49: Two Unsolved Riddles and One New Proverb
Psalm 51: A Man Renegotiating Heroism
Psalm 68: Further Harmolodic Musings
Psalm 71: Do Not Dump Me in Time of Old Age
Psalm 73: But I… (wa’ănî)
Psalm 78.67-72: King David and the Chinese ‘Mandate of Heaven’
Psalm 84: Where is Home?
Psalm 90: It Soon Becomes Empty – My Chinese Reading of the Psalm
Psalm 90: In Praise of Psalm 90
Psalm 91: Life in the Shelter of the ‘Most High’
Psalm 100: ‘Worship the Lord with Rousing Acclamation!’
Psalm 104: A Discomfortable Reading by an Implicated Subject
Psalm 104: Humanity’s Firm Grounding
Psalm 104: The Signiﬁcance of its Ending
Psalm 106: Blessed Living as a Mixed-Race Descendant
Psalm 114: A Beautiful Counter-Cultural Psalm
Psalm 117: A Hymn of Steadfast Love
Psalm 118: Poetry and Poetics through a Past in Science
Psalm 121: in Three Receptions
Psalm 121: Ascending to the Holy with the Psalm
Psalm 121: and Synagogue Music— Hope in a Minor Key
Psalm 121: Why This Psalm Is Popular in Contemporary Israel
Psalm 123: The ‘Flow’ of Seeing
Psalm 126: Weeping, Reaping, and Dining
Psalm 126: Commemorating the Dead during the Lockdown, 2020
Psalm 126: Those Who Sow Shall Reap in Tears
Psalm 127.2: He giveth unto His beloved in sleep – and What about Me? A Personal Story of Psalm 127
PSALMS 127–128: Whose Labor? Whose Hands?
Psalm 132: Lifegiving Conversations with a Psalm
Psalm 136: The Power of a List
Psalm 137: A Kau’i-talanoa Reading
Psalm 137: Emotions of the Exiles in a Foreign Land
Psalm 137: Song of A Broken Heart
Psalm 139: Fully Known
Psalm 146: A Native reStorying of the Psalm Under Tsunami and Covid Waves
Psalm 150: hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah
Index of Biblical References
Index of Authors
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