Psalms And Liturgy

his book offers unique insights into the Psalms and sketches a variety of interpretive possibilities. The exposition of Psalm texts against the background of their different historical and/or cultic settings in the ancient Near East sets a firm basis for their reapplication in the liturgy today. In the history of interpretation the Psalms have also proven themselves to be natural texts for liturgical use. This scholarly effort thus portrays in various ways the importance of the Psalms for their reviving interpretation and application in th

Waiting for meaning - Psalms in cult and culture	p. 1
Psalter and messiah : towards a Christological understanding of the Psalms in the Old Testment and the church fathers	p. 15
Words with teeth and childbearing men : metaphors in Psalm 7	p. 41
Cult-critical motif in Psalm 69.32 - does it portray an anti-cultic stance?	p. 62
Psalm 136 : a liturgy with reference to creation and history	p. 73
Worship and theology in the Psalms	p. 89
Revisiting the Psalm headings : Second Temple Levitial propapaganda?	p. 102
Augustine, Gadamer and the Psalms (or : the Psalms as the answer to a question)	p. 123
The Judean legitimation of royal rulers in its ancient Near Eastern contexts	p. 131
Paschal liturgy and psalmody in Jersusalem 380-384 CE : some observations and implications	p. 140
Psalm 32 - structure, genre, intent and liturgical use	p. 155
Traces of liturgies in the Psalter : the communal laments, Psalms 79, 80, 83, 89 in context	p. 168
Spatiality in Psalm 29	p. 235
Theopoetical and liturgical patterns of the Psalms with reference to Psalm 19	p. 251
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