Psalms: My Psalm My Context [Hardcover]

This unique volume on the Psalms is the final Hebrew Bible installment of the Texts@Contexts series. Each contribution provides a contextual reflection on a Psalm as chosen by the contributor.These contributions take account of the contributor's own personal context or the contexts of those around them, providing readings that are varied in geographical and linguistic scope, that reflect on pressing themes such as immigration, diversity, race, marginalized voices (such as those of adults with learning disabilities) and postcolonialism. Scholars also reflect on their own contexts of research and education.

Taken together the contributions to this volume provide a sort of contextual commentary on the Psalms, gathering a wide range of voices and reflecting a diverse range of cultural afterlives of the Psalms.

Athalya Brenner-Idanis Professor Emerita of the HB\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and formerly Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Biblical Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Gale A. Yeeis Nancy W. King Professor of Biblical Studies emerita at Episcopal Divinity School, USA.

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List of Contributors

Introduction
Athalya Brenner-Idan and Gale A. Yee

1. Psalm 6: Plea, Protest, Anger, Discipline, Weariness, Deliverance
John Goldingay, Senior Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California

2. Psalm 8: The Poor and the Earth Cry Out
Nicole L. Tilford, Production Manager for SBL Press, Atlanta

3. Psalm 8: How I Fell in Love with the Bible
Francis Landy, retired Religious Studies professor at the University of Alberta, Canada

4. Psalm 18.35: Giving David OdysslSÕ