Mr. Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Mr. Rolf P. Knierim, Mr. Gene's Psalms, Part 2 and Lamentations (Forms of the Old Testament PDF

By Mr. Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Mr. Rolf P. Knierim, Mr. Gene M. Tucker

ISBN-10: 0802804888

ISBN-13: 9780802804884

PSALMS, half 2, and LAMENTATIONS is quantity XV of The sorts of the outdated testomony Literature, a chain that goals to offer a form-critical research of each booklet and every unit within the Hebrew Bible. essentially exegetical, the FOTL volumes learn the constitution, style, atmosphere, and goal of the biblical literature in query. in addition they learn the historical past at the back of the form-critical dialogue of the fabric, try and carry consistency to the terminology for the genres and formulation of the biblical literature, and disclose the exegetical methods as a way to allow scholars and pastors to have interaction of their personal research and interpretation of the outdated testomony texts. This quantity completes Erhard Gerstenberger's extensively praised dialogue of the psalms literature all started in quantity XIV, and contains in addition an admirable research of the ebook of Lamentations. Gerstenberger translates different varieties of songs and prayers that include the booklet of Psalms in gentle in their sociohistorical settings and offers a concise formal and structural research of every biblical textual content according to an illuminating comparability with different historical close to japanese prayers and hymns. Seeing the biblical writings in terms of the social, cultic, non secular, and theological conceptions of Israel's neighboring peoples permits modern readers to higher grab the aim and religious which means of the psalms and Lamentations to the Jewish neighborhood that composed them.

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Psalm 66: Communal Thanksgiving Hymn Structure I. Superscription II. Call to worship A. Summons to praise (imperatives) B. Quoted praise C. Summons to praise (jussives) III. Praise of God A. Summons to acknowledge God's power B. Remembrance of God's victories C. Praise of God's government D. Intimidation of God's enemies IV. Communal thanksgiving A. Summons to peoples B. Account of deliverance C. Direct-address hymn 1. Account of trouble 2. Account of salvation V. Individual thanksgiving A. Account of vow B.

This is not to deny traces of plaintive utterances in our psalm; they are clearly of secondary import, though, and are apparently used to undergird confessional affirmations (cf. vv. 4-5). Vv. 2-3 and 6-8 on the surface could be refrains of a song or liturgy. They frame the attacks against the enemies (vv. 4-5) as if confidence in God could smother the evildoers. But unlike 42:6, 12; 43:5 our verses do not really close a strophe, nor do they in any way show any internal dialogue like the one in Psalms 42 and 43.

Significantly, prayerful direct address is carried on first by the collective "we" (vv. 10-12), thereafter by an unidentified "I" (vv. 13-15). , Duhm; Gunkel; Oesterley; Westermann; Crüsemann, Studien 174-91 and 229 η. 1 versus propagators of at least a "liturgical composition": Mowinckel, WII, 28; Schmidt; Leslie; Weiser; Tate) seems superfluous in the face of these stylistic and ceremonial facts: vv. 10-15 are dif- ferenliated by the grammatical number of speaker(s), but tightly sewn into one liturgical quilt by consistent prayer address to God.

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