The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms

includes index and biblioraphy

The Psalms: An Overview.................1
1. Ancient near Eastern Backgroungs
Mesopotamian Parallels to the Psalms ............27
Canaanite Backgrounds to the Psalms ...........43
Egyptian Backgrounds to the Psalms .........57
2. Language of the Psalms
Poetry of the Psalms .............79
The psalms in Poetry.............99
Language of Lament in the Psalms .............114
Praise and Metonymy in the Psalms ............131
Wisdom language in the Psalms .........147
3. Translating Psalms
The Aramaic Psalter.............161
The Septuagint Psalter ..............173
Jerome`s Psalters ..........185
5. Composition of the Psalms
The levites and the Editorial Composition of the Psalms ...............201
On the Ordering of Psalms as Demostrated by Psalms 136-150.............214
Unrolling the Dead sea Psalms scrolls ........229
5. History of Interpretation and Reception : A sampling
Some Aspects of Traditional Jewish psalms interpretation ......253
Psalms in the New Testament ..................269
The psalms in the Qur`an and inthe Islamic Religious Imagination ..............281
Reception of the Psalms : The Example of Psalm 91..............297
6. Interpretive approaches
Psalms and the Question of Genre .............313
Psalms of the Temple ................326
NOn-Temple Psalms: The Cultic Setting Revisited ..........338
The Shape and Shaping of the psalter: Psalms in Their Literary context .............350
The meta-Narrative of the Psalter .............363
Ancient near eastern iconography and the psalms ..........377
Rhetoric of the Psalms .............392
Poetic Attachment : Psychology, Psycholinguistics, and the Psalms ..........404
Feminist interpretation of the Psalms ................424
Kingship in the book of Psalms ............437
7. Cultureally based interpretations
Singing a Subversive song: Psalm 137 and Colored Pompey...............447
Rising from generation to Generation : Lament, Hope, Consciousness, Home and Dream ...........459
Psalms in Latin America ...............475
8. Theologies of the Psalms
Jewish theology of the Psalms ..................485
Christian theology of the psalms ...............499
9. Anthropologies of the Psalms
On being human in the psalms ............515
The righteous and the Wicked ..........529
10. Practicing the Psalms
The Psalms in Christian Worship...........545
Preaching psalms .........557
Singing the psalms ...........569
Psalms as Resources for Pastoral Care ..........583
The Psalms : A monastic Perspective ............596
Ecological Use of the Psalms ...........608