The return of the King: Messianic expectation in Book V of the Psalter
List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Abstract -- Chapter 1. The Return of the King -- PART I - Background -- Chapter 2. Editorial Criticism's Crisis of Credibility -- Chapter 3. Picking up the Pieces: Best Practices in Editorial Criticism -- Chapter 4. New Avenues: The Way For...
| Summary: | List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Abstract -- Chapter 1. The Return of the King -- PART I - Background -- Chapter 2. Editorial Criticism's Crisis of Credibility -- Chapter 3. Picking up the Pieces: Best Practices in Editorial Criticism -- Chapter 4. New Avenues: The Way Forward for Editorial Criticism -- PART II - BOOK V In Perspective -- Chapter 5. Research on Book V: The State of the Field -- Chapter 6. Reading from the Beginning: The Book of Psalms as Book -- PART III - Research Analysis -- Chapter 7. Forever Faithful: Yahweh's Covenant Loyalty in Psalms 107-118 -- Chapter 8. Yahweh's Torah and the King: Royal Emphasis in Psalm 119 -- Chapter 9. Return to Zion: The Locus of Messianic Rule in Psalms 120-137 -- Chapter 10. The End Mirrors the Beginning: The Davidic Connection Between Books I-III and Psalms 138-145 -- Chapter 11. Coda: Psalms 146-150 as the Conclusion of the Psalter -- PART IV - Conclusion -- Chapter 12. Messianic Hope in Comparable Jewish Literature -- Appendix 1 -- Bibliography The clear structure of psalm groups in Psalms 107-150 can be interpreted as signaling a renewed hope in the royal/Davidic promises. Each psalm group of Book V is organized around a theme or key word that is related to the royal/Davidic hope in the earlier sections of the Psalter: Psalms 107-118; Psalm 119; Psalms 120-137; Psalms 138-145; Psalms 146-150. These words and themes figure prominently at the major seam psalms of the Psalter - Psalms 1-2 and 89. Thus, the content and subject matter at the end of the Psalter is integrally related to the content and subject matter at the beginning. The editorial-critical method used by Snearly is an extension of the method used by David M. Howard, Jr. in The Structure of Psalms 93-100. Snearly also draws from recent insights in the fields of poetics and text-linguistics in order to establish a linguistically based foundation for reading the Psalter as a unified text. The methodology emphasizes parallel features, with special focus on key-word links. This method advances editorial criticism by not only discerning links within a group but also showing that those links do not occur with the same frequency outside of the group |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-228) and index |
| ISBN: | 0567664341 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9780567664341 |