Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms Conflict and Convergence

includes index and biblioraphy

Part I : Jewish and christian Responses to the psalms
The dead sea Psalms scrolls: Psalms manuscripts, editions, and the oxford hebrew bible.........11
Reflections on the Canon and the text of the Bible in Response to peter flint................35
Medieval answers to modern questions......38
Medieval psalms exegesis as a challenge to modern exegesis .............56
The reception of Psalm 137 in Jewish and Christian Traditions...........64
Psalm 137 : Unlikely Liturgy or partisan poem?...............83
The liturgical Psalter in Medieval Europe..........89
True Lights : Seeing the psalms through Chagall`s Church windows.......105
How can we sing the lord`s Song?..........119
The Psalms in Judaism and Christianity : A reception history perspective .......134
Part II: Reading the Psalter
The Psalter as Theodicy writ Large ...........147
The psalter and theodicy: perspectives Related to a Rhetorical Approach............161
The Psalter as a Book..........168
The proto-MT Psalter, The king, and Psalms 1 And 2 : A Response to klaus Seybold..............182
On translating the poetry of the psalms ..........190
Traduttore traditore , Beowulf and the Psalms: A response to nancy de Claisse-walford...............204
part III: Past Contexts and Future Perspectives
Psalm104 and Akhenaten`s Hymn to the Sun........211
The psalms and sumerian hymns.......229
Frank-lothar Hossfeld and till magnus steiner problems and prospects in psalter studies.........240
Postscript...........259