Reading the Psalms as a Book (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Whybray, R. Norman

ISBN 10: 1850757976 / ISBN 13: 9781850757979

Editore: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996

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• Titolo: Reading the Psalms as a Book (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
• Editore: Sheffield Academic Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1850757976
• ISBN 13: 9781850757979
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: new

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This book discusses the theory that the Psalter was compiled with the specific intention that it should be used as a book for private spiritual reading. It is argued that if this were so, the work of the final editors would not have been confined to arranging the psalms in a particular order but would have included additions and interpolations intended to give the whole book a new orientation. An investigation of selected psalms shows that although the Psalter may have become a book for private devotion not long after its compilation, there is little evidence that it was compiled for that purpose.

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