Soundings in the Theology of Psalms: Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The many introductions to the psalms available to readers tend to focus on various types and forms of psalms but overlook different theological approaches to the Psalter. This volume brings together leading psalms scholars from Catholic and Protestant traditions and takes into account recent scholarship on the shape and shaping of the Psalter and on the rhetorical interpretation of the Psalms.
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- Brings together leading psalms scholars from Catholic and Protestant traditions
- Takes into account recent scholarship on the shape and shaping of the Psalter
- Examines the rhetorical interpretation of the Psalms
- “The Psalms and the Life of Faith: A Suggested Typology of Function” by Walter Brueggemann
- “God at Work in the Word: A Theology of Divine-Human Encounter in the Psalms” by Harry P. Nasuti
- “The Destiny of the Righteous and the Theology of the Psalms” by Jerome F. D. Creach
- “The Single Most Important Text in the Entire Bible: Toward a Theology of the Psalms” by J. Clinton McCann Jr.
- “The Theology of the Imprecatory Psalms” by Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford
- “Saying Amen to Violent Psalms: Patterns of Prayer, Belief, and Action in the Psalter” by Joel M. LeMon
- “‘The Faithfulness of the Lord Endures Forever’: The Theological Witness of the Psalter” by Rolf Jacobson
- “Rethinking the Enterprise: What Must Be Considered in Formulating a Theology of the Psalms” by Beth Tanner
Top Highlights
“associated with narrow, legalistic, and condemnatory expressions of faith” (Page 50)
“The second naïveté has been through the pit and is now prepared to ‘hope all things’ (1 Cor 13:7). But now, hope is after the pit. It now knows that finally things have been reduced and need be reduced no more. It knows that our experience is demystified, as it must be. But it knows that even in a world demystified and reduced, grace intrudes and God makes all things new. The ones who give thanks and sing genuinely new songs must be naive or they would not bother to sing songs and to give thanks. But it is a praise in which the anguish of disorientation is not forgotten, removed, or absent.” (Page 19)
“In fact, that which follows Psalm 1 helps to define what meditation is. Meditation on the law of God means doing the Psalms. Put differently, the essence of meditation on the law is prayer: speech to God and about God’s justice. Framed this way, the entire Psalter becomes an extended meditation on the law, or the law of God in prayer and song.” (Page 97)
“I believe that the dominant theological confession of the Psalter may be summed up concisely as The Lord is faithful” (Page 111)
“The Psalms reflect the difficult way in which the old worlds are relinquished and new worlds are embraced.” (Page 24)
Rolf A. Jacobson is an associate professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Luther Seminary and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has authored numerous books and Bible studies and is a contributing writer to The Lutheran Handbook and The Lutheran Handbook II.