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