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Informationen zum Autor Susan Gillingham is Fellow and Tutor in Theology at Worcester College and is Reader in the Old Testament at the University of Oxford. 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). Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Volume One provides a fascinating introduction to the literary, historical, and theological background of psalmody. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations xi Series Editors' Preface xiii Preface xv Preface to the Paperback Edition xvii Works Cited xix 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, Li...
