Reading the Psalms as a Book

By Roger Norman Whybray

Book Overview

This book discusses the theory that the Psalter was compiled with the specific intention that it should be used as a book for private spiritual reading. It is argued that if this were so, the work of the final editors would not have been confined to arranging the psalms in a particular order but would have included additions and interpolations intended to give the whole book a new orientation. An investigation of selected psalms shows that although the Psalter may have become a book for private devotion not long after its compilation, there is little evidence that it was compiled for that purpose.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850757976
• ISBN13: 9781850757979
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"