Description
Book SynopsisAn exhaustive study of these kingship psalms, utilizing the entire lexicon of the 8 psalms studied. Howard’s study confirms that Hebrew poetry is regularized around a pattern of bicolons of roughly 8:8 syllables and 3:3 stresses. A major contribution to the rhetorical-critical method.
Trade ReviewRerviewe Leslie Fuller One could no better advocate for the theory of synchronic coherant in the psalter Journal of Biblical Literature 1998
Table of ContentsPREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
1. A CONTEXTUAL AND STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO PSALMS 93-100
Modern Critical Approaches to Psalms Study
Studies Devoted to Contextual and Structural Relationships
Focus of the Present Study
2. METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
A Synchronic Analysis of the Masoretic Text
Qumran and the Masoretic Text
Syllable and Stress Counting and Structural Analysis
3. THE TEXTS
Psalm 93
Psalm 94
Psalm 95
Psalm 96
Psalm 97
Psalm 98
Psalm 99
Psalm 100
4. THE TEXTS IN CONTEXT
Introduction
The Data
Key-Word Links
Thematic Connections
Structure/Genre Similarities
Summary
Psalms 93-100 and Superscriptions
Psalm 93 in Context
Psalm 94 in Context
Psalm 95 in Context
Psalm 96 in Context
Psalm 97 in Context
Psalm 98 in Context
Psalm 99 in Context
5. THE STRUCTURE OF PSALMS 93-100
Psalms 73-89
Psalms 90-92
Psalm 93
Psalm 94
Psalm 95
Psalm 96
Psalm 97
Psalm 98
Psalm 99
Psalm 100
Psalms 101-6
Conclusion
APPENDIX 1: Dates of Psalms 93-100
APPENDIX 2: Prose Particle Counts and Percentages in Book IV
APPENDIX 3: Divine Names and Titles in Psalms 93-100
APPENDIX 4: Wisdom and Royalist/Zion Traditions in the Psalter
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF AUTHORS
