Table of Contents
The Psalms through three thousand years : prayerbook of a cloud of witnesses / William L. Holladay. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 1993
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Lord Is My Shepherd, Then and Now
PART ONE: THE PSALMS TAKE SHAPE — A RECONSTRUCTION
2. In the Beginning: Psalms Sung in David's Day
The Historical Framework of the Old Testament
The Discovery of the Ugaritic Texts
Psalms with Canaanite Antecedents
Psalms from David's Reign
3. Psalms from the North
The Nature of the Evidence
Psalm 45
The Other Korahite Psalms
The Psalms of Asaph
Other Psalms from the North
4. Psalms from the Temple of Solomon
The Nature of Our Evidence
Royal Psalms
Psalms Offering Unique Wording Appropriate to the Period
Psalms from Which Amos and Jeremiah Drew
How Do We Reconstruct a Vanished Culture?
The Poetic Skill of the Psalmists
The Faith and Outlook of the Pre-exilic Psalms
5. Hymns for the Second Temple
The Jews in the Hundred Years after the Fall of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E.
Bilingualism among the Returnees
Psalm 137: A Psalm Composed during the Exile
The Pre-exilic Psalms in the Exilic context
Linguistic Clues for the Post-exilic Period and Post-exilic Psalms Dependent on Jeremiah
The Faith of the Early Post-exilic Community
Torah-Psalms 19:8; 119; and the Motif of Wisdom
The Pre-exilic Psalms in the Post-exilic Context
6. Steps toward the Status of Scripture: The Psalms Are Collected, Annotated, and Translated
The Jews: The Fifth through the Third Centuries B.C.E.
Fresh Psalms: The Collection of 150 Psalms
The Types of Psalms
Clues to Subcollections within the Psalms
The Compilation of the Psalter
The Process of Canonization
The Scattering of Jews beyond Palestine and the Use of the Psalms beyond Palestine
Translations
PART TWO: THE PSALTER THROUGH HISTORY
7. Psalms at the Dead Sea
The Jews, 323-63 B.C.E.: The Challenge of Hellenism
The Psalms of Solomon
The Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
History and Beliefs of the Community
The Scrolls
Summary
8. Texts for the First Christians: the Psalms in the New Testament
9. The Psalms for Jews, from the First Century of the Common Era
10. The Psalms for Christians: In The West until the Reformation, and in the East
11. The Psalms for Reformation Protestants
Martin Luther: His Career and His Commentaries on the Psalms
John Calvin: His Career and His Commentaries on the Psalms
The Commentaries of Katharina Schütz Zell and Justina Sanger
Metrical Psalms: The First Stage
English Translations of the Bible
Metrical Psalms: The Second Stage
Hymns Based on the Psalms
Paraphrases Composed by the Humanist Poets
The Psalms as Battle Hymns
Metrical Psalms in Anglican Worship
Printed Psalms in the Lives of Two Laymen
Musical Works
12. The Psalms in the Roman Catholic Church from the Council of Trent until the Second Vatican Council
The Psalms in the Mass
The Psalms in the Daily Office
Musical Settings of the Psalms
The effect of the Latin Language
The Place of the Psalms in the Lives of the Catholics
The Struggle over Biblical Scholarship: New Translations
Praying the Psalms on the Eve of Vatican II: Gelineau and Merton
13. The Psalms across Space and Time: The Nineteenth Century
A Psalm Verse That Was a Beacon for American Slaves
The Psalms into All the World
The Work of Translation
The Recovery of the World of the Psalms: Pioneers
Revision of the King James Version
Paraphrases of the Psalms
Musical Works
Responsive Readings
“Alleluia” and “Hallelujah”
14. The Psalms in the Churches Today: Protestants and Roman Catholics
PART THREE: CURRENT THEOLOGICAL ISSUES
15. Toughening Texts: Lament, Recovery, and Praise
16. Censored Texts
17. What Makes a Translation?
18. Psalms for Whom?
19. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord
Epilogue: How the Twenty-third Psalm Became an American Secular Icon
Appendixes
Indexes
Index of Scripture and Other Early Writings
Index of Authors and Historical Persons