Psalms – The Divine Journey Collected Essays 1988-2026

Introduction



Part I. Studies of Specific Psalms

1. Psalm 1: Sonant Particles and Parallelism, with Speculation on the Poem's Scribal Production

2. Psalm 8:2b-3: New Proposals for Old Problems

3. Setting and Rhetoric in Psalm 23

4. Psalms 42-43: Dual Self, Dual Genre

5. God and Zion: Form and Meaning in Psalm 48

6. The Invocation of Dead Ancestors in Ps 49:12c

7. The Structure of Psalm LXXXVII

8. Primary and Secondary Religion in Psalms 91 and 139: A Response to Dr. Andreas Wagner

9. How To Write a Poem: The Case of Psalm 151A in 11QPsa 28:3-12



Part II. Psalms and the Body

10. 'Seeing God' in the Psalms: The Background to the Beatific Vision in the Hebrew Bible

11. The Heart and Innards in Israelite Emotional Expressions: Notes from Anthropology and Psychobiology

12. Some Biblical Soul Talk in the Psalms: The Reflexive Self ( nepeš )



Part III. Psalter Backgrounds

13. Canaanite Backgrounds to the Psalms

14. Like Deities, Like Temples (Like People)

15. 'People' between Liturgical Experience and Political Imagination: Preliminary Observations on * 'ām in the Psalms



Part IV. The Psalter: In the End

16. The Theology of the Redaction of the Psalter: Some Observations

17. The Levitical Compilation of the Psalter

18. Taking Inspiration: Authorship, Revelation, and the Book of Psalms

19. The Psalms as a Book for Pilgrims