An examination of gender, ownership, and memory in the imagery of the prefatory cycle of the Melisende Psalter (Egerton 1139).
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Readers prize the Psalter for its varied theological landscape, though few have explored the collection’s ethical contours. Four portraits of righteous character (Psalms 15, 24, 34, and 37) highlight the ethical concerns of Book I. The didactic voice in these portraits provides …
The shape and message of the Psalter has been of central interest for many Old Testament scholars during the last thirty years. At the core of shape scholarship stands the issue of hope. Often this is related to what is commonly considered a major hope-shift in the Psalter, whic…
The Judaean Desert discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of the textual development and transmission of the Hebrew Bible. Accordingly, after almost seventy years of research, four theories of textual transmission have become predominant. Nevertheless, in recent years…
This dissertation examines the role of Moses in the Fourth Book of the Psalter (Pss 90–106). Chapter 1 sets out a methodology for the dissertation. The methodology is based on a canonical-reader approach in which the final form of the text is used and attention is given to the s…
Gerald Wilson and Walter Brueggemann each propose that the Hebrew Psalter has a dominant theological shape that was created by redactors. Wilson argues that the Psalter moves from reliance on human kings to reliance on Yhwh as king and that the Psalter pivots from the old positi…
This study examines the pervasive influence of post-exilic wisdom editors and writers in the shaping of the Psalter by analyzing the use of wisdom elements--vocabulary, themes, rhetorical devices, and parallels with other Ancient Near Eastern wisdom traditions. I begin with an a…
This dissertation examines the use of speech terminology in the Hebrew Psalter in order to find out why the terminology is used frequently and what it teaches about speech ethics. Also, it seeks to determine the Psalter's contribution to the study of Old Testament ethics in gene…
This dissertation argues that Book IV of the canonical Hebrew Psalter (Pss 90-106) sustains the hope that God will keep his covenant with David by installing a future king from David's line. Chapter 1 introduces the debate, states the thesis, surveys the history of psalmic inter…