The Antiquity of Psalter Shape Efforts
Steffen G. Jenkins
In recent decades, Psalms scholarship has paid increasing attention to the overall editorial arrangement of book Psalms, and placement individual psalms as their literary context. An obvious objection this enterprise is its novelty, especially since have enjoyed unparalleled exegetical in history Christian Jewish exegesis. This fed by nearly ubiquitous inaccurate presentation Psalter-shape readings originating 1985 with Gerald Wilson. While Wilson changed landscape deservedly named ancestor project, that inaccurate. We will show a desire understand shape whole Psalter, intention, can be dated second century, leading through various stages full-length commentaries following approach being attempted nineteenth century. Finally, without detracting from Wilson’s unique contribution, we he was not alone his own day but others were engaged task concurrently decades before him.
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