This is the first of a two-volume bible commentary covering the Psalms and examining the role of these biblical poems throughout Jewish and Christian history.
- Provides a fascinating introduction to the literary, historical, and theological background of psalmody
- Examines the psalms through liturgy and prayer, study and preaching, translation and imitation, and musical composition and artistic illustration
- Includes illustrations of significant psalms, helpful maps, and an extensive bibliography; an expanded bibliography to accompany the book is also available at www.wiley.com/go/gillingham
- A forthcoming second volume is planned, which will take an alternative psalm-by-psalm approach
- Now available in paperback, and published in the innovative reception-history series, Blackwell Bible Commentaries
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"In this volume, Gillingham meticulously masters the diverse reception history of the psalms. ... Every page is bursting with solid research and influential insight. This work is an invaluable addition to the field and beckons the second volume." (Religious Studies Review, December 2009) "This is a most impressive piece of work .The Coverage is truly encyclopaedic in scope and nothing seems to have escaped Gillingham's attention." (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, June 2008) "This wonderful book whets the appetite both for its second volume, and for more volumes of this valuable series... [ A] highly innovative and promising project." (International Review of Biblical Studies, 2007-2008)
List of Illustrations ix Series Editors' Preface xi Preface xiii Works
Cited xv Introduction: Towards a Reception-History Commentary on the Psalms 1
1 The Eleventh Century BCE to the Fifth Century CE: Translation, Exposition,
Instruction, Liturgy and the Prophetic Bias 5 Jewish Reception 5 From
Composition to Compilation to Translation 5 Exposition: The Prophetic Bias 9
Instruction through Imitations of Psalms 11 Christian Reception 13 The Psalms
as Prophecies in the New Testament 14 The Psalms as Prophecies in the Church
Fathers 24 Alexandrian Commentators 28 Liturgical Adaptations of the Psalms
40 Christian Liturgy 40 Jewish Liturgy 43 Concluding Observations 46 2 The
Fifth to Eleventh Centuries: Liturgy, Exposition, Artistic Representation 47
Christian Reception 47 Liturgy 47 Exposition, Homily, Translation 55 Artistic
Representation 62 Jewish Reception 68 Liturgy 68 Translation, Exposition,
Homily 71 Artistic Representation 75 Concluding Observations 75 3 The
Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries: Learning and Discerning 77 Jewish and
Christian Controversies through Exegetical Works 77 Preliminary
Considerations 77 Jewish Commentators 82 Christian Commentators 87 Christian
and Jewish Artists 95 Christian Illumination 95 Jewish Illumination 104
Christian and Jewish Didactic Works 113 Christian Writers 113 Jewish Writers
117 Christian and Jewish Liturgy 120 Christian Adaptations 120 Jewish
Adaptations 123 Translation in Christian Tradition 123 Concluding
Observations 130 4 The Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries: Democratization
and Dissemination 131 Reception as Translation: Christian Responses 131
Commentary, Liturgy, Homily and Translation on the Continent 131 Liturgy,
Homily and Translation in England and Scotland 146 Reception as Aesthetic
Representation: Jewish and Christian Responses 163 Jewish Reception through
Art and Music 163 Christian Reception through Art, Literary Imitation and
Music 166 Concluding Observations 190 5 The Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries: Secularization and Revitalization 192 Christian Responses 194
Exegetical Works 194 Devotional Works 203 Musical Reception 220 Reception
through Liturgy 228 Translations of Psalmody 230 Jewish Responses 234
Reception as Translation and Liturgy 234 Reception as Homily and Exegesis 237
Aesthetic Responses 239 Concluding Observations 240 6 The Twentieth to
Twenty-First Centuries: Pluralism and Ecumenism 242 Christian and Jewish
Translations of Psalmody 246 Liturgy and Psalmody in Christian and Jewish
Traditions 254 Exegetical Studies, Christian and Jewish 266 Devotional Works,
Christian and Jewish 282 Aesthetic Responses, Christian and Jewish 290
Concluding Observations 307 Conclusion: From Introduction to Commentary 309
Glossary 313 References 322 Index of Psalms 351 Index of Names 361 Subject
Index 368
Susan Gillingham is Fellow and Tutor in Theology at Worcester College and is University Lecturer in Old Testament. She has written various books and articles on the Psalms and Biblical Interpretation, including The Poems and Psalms of the Hebrew Bible (1994), One Bible, Many Voices: Different Approaches to Biblical Studies (1998) and The Image, the Depths and the Surface: Multivalent Approaches to Biblical Study (2002).
