Reading from the Beginning: The Shaping of the Hebrew Psalter

Reading from the Beginning: The Shaping of the Hebrew Psalter
ISBN-10
0865545677
ISBN-13
9780865545670
Category
Religion
Pages
166
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Mercer University Press
Author
Nancy L. deClaisse-Walford

Description

The canonical shape of the Hebrew Bible reveals the footprints of the communities of faith that formed that literature. Nancy deClaisse-Walford explores the process by which the postexilic community selected, appropriated, and shaped various psalms into the Hebrew Psalter. The Psalter, she concludes, tells its own story of the history of ancient Israel and gives its shaping community and subsequent believing communities a rationale for continued existence as a people with God as their king.

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