An Intertextual Commentary to the Psalter

When reading the Psalter, the sequencing of individual psalms is often overlooked or taken for granted, and it is easy to assume that the psalms' placement results purely from happenstance. The present volume, however, assumes that strategic approaches to juxtaposition, which editors and arrangers apply elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible, were similarly adopted in the arrangement of the Psalter. Furthermore, the Intertextual Commentary illuminates the vast array of biblical texts employed by the psalmists. In addition to the commonly recognized literary tool kit available to biblical poets (parallelism, metaphor, anthropomorphism, chiasmus, etc.), the poets relied heavily on inner-biblical allusion and exegesis to construct their compositions. Primarily adopting a diachronic approach, Emanuel isolates literary sources employed by the psalmists, and further postulates how the psalmists wove specific words and phrases into the fabric of their compositions.

Author: David Emanuel
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 09/07/2022
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9781620321850
ISBN10: 1620321858
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Studies | Old Testament | Poetry & Wisdom Literatur
- Religion | Biblical Commentary | Old Testament | General

About the Author
David Emanuel is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Language at Nyack College in Manhattan.