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Reading the Psalms as a Book

Reading the Psalms as a Book

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Paperback / softback

£37.99

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781850757979
Number of Pages: 137
Published: 07/01/1996
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.

R. Norman Whybray

The late was Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Studies at the Univeristy of Hull.

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