The Formation of the 'Book' of Psalms: Reconsidering the Transmission and Canonization of Psalmody in Light of Material Culture and the Poetics of Ant (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783161547874)

In this study, David Willgren attempts to provide answers to two fundamental questions in relation to the formation of the Book' of Psalms: "how?" and "why?". The first relates to the diachronic growth of the collection (how are these processes to be reconstructed, and on what grounds?), while the second relates to questions of purpose (to what end are psalms being juxtaposed in a collection?). By conceptualizing the Book' of Psalms as an anthology, and by inquiring into its poetics by means of paratextuality, David Willgren provides a fresh reconstruction of the formation of the Book' of Psalms and concludes, in contrast to the canonical approach, that it does not primarily provide a literary context for individual psalms. Rather, it preserves a dynamic selection of psalms that is best seen not as a book of psalms, but as a canon of psalms.

Author: David Willgren
ISBN-10: 316154787X
ISBN-13: 9783161547874
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2016
Pages: 491
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs