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Psalm 23: A Musical Exegesis

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes William L. Holladay, The Psalms through Three Thousand Years: Prayerbook of a Cloud of Witnesses (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), 359. 23rd Psalm. Chichester Psalms. Black, Brown, and Beige. Requiem. J. Clinton McCann Jr., “The Book of Psalms: Introduction, Commentary, and Reflections,” in The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume IV (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996), 644–45. Klaus Seybold, Introducing the Psalms (London: T&T Clark, 1990), 116–17. Subsequent scholarship has shown that while this metrical pattern is most often found in laments (Psalm 5, Amos 5), its usage is not restricted to them. S. E. Gillingham, The Poems and Psalms of the Hebrew Bible (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 53. Ibid., 62. George Bush, “Address to the Nation, September 11, 2001,” http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010911-16.html (accessed March 11, 2008). Parallel modes are scales that share the same tonic (root) but have different pitches, such as A major and A minor. Relative modes are scales that share the same notes but have different tonics (roots), such as A major and F minor. In Roman numeral notation, capital letters are used to signify major chords while lower-case letters are used for minor chords. Gillingham, 62. Apostolic Constitutions, 2.7. Emil G. Hirsh, “Psalms,” in Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=574&letter=P&search=Psalms (accessed February 11, 2008). Additional informationNotes on contributorsIsaac EverettIsaac Everett is the minister of liturgical arts for The Crossing, an emerging Christian community in Boston. He is a musician, songwriter, and hymnist with two albums of sacred music, Rotation and Transmission, available on Proost, iTunes, and Rhapsody. This article was adapted from The Emergent Psalter (New York: Church Publishing, 2009), a commentary and musical setting of the psalms written for intimate worship.

New Interpreter's Bible One‐Volume Commentary – Edited by Beverly Roberts Gaventa and David Petersen

New Interpreter's Bible One‐Volume Commentary – Edited by Beverly Roberts Gaventa and David Petersen

Rhetorical Criticism in Biblical Commentaries

Biblical commentators through history have employed various methods to facilitate interpretation, including rhetorical criticism, with emphasis on classical rhetoric. Despite a resurgence of interest in rhetoric in the past two decades, only a few commentators in the New Interpreter's Bible and the Hermeneia series have undertaken in-depth rhetorical analysis. Most observations of these commentators are derived from the rhetorics of Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian and the Rhetorica ad Herennium. This essay sets forth and evaluates the various methods of rhetorical analysis and their employment in the two above-mentioned commentary series.

Encyclopedia of religion in the South

SAMUEL S. HILL AND CHARLES H. LJBBY, EDS. Encyclopedia of Religion in the South. second edition, revised, updated, and expanded. Macon, Georgia: Mercer 2005. Pp. xv + 854. $60.00. This revision of the Encyclopedia of Religion in the South, first published in 1984, involves sixty new articles and revision of many original ones. As with the original volume, entries deal with denominations, leaders, ethnic groups, architecture, church offices, doctrinal emphases, social movements, and major cities. New topics range from the Bible Belt to the Brownsville Revival, from Mahalia Jackson to Stonewall Jackson. Not surprisingly, articles have been added on various fundamentalist entities (e.g., the PTL Club) and leaders (e.g., Pat Robertson) and on nonwestern religions (e.g., Islam). Most material is quite valuable. Particularly enticing are entries on such matters as Guilt, Fatalism, Neo Paganism, Spirituality, Voodoo, Sports and Religion, and Violence and Religion. Some updated articles are excellent, such as Lawrence S. Cunningham's sensitive treatment of novelist Flannery O'Connor. Problems, however, exist in several areas. First, there are technical matters. The list of contents promises an index beginning on page 857, but the entire volume ends with page 854. second, some bibliographies need updating. It is hard to write on financier Bernard Baruch (who, incidentally, resided primarily in the North from age eleven on) without citing the definitive work of Jordan A. Schwarz, to cover the civil rights movement without noting the work of Taylor Branch, and to discuss Anglican evangelist Devereux Jarrett without listing the work of David L. Holmes. In both editions, moreover, one finds historian Gilbert H. Barnes called Gilbert H. Drumond and scholar Dwight L. Dumond named Dwight L. Drumond. Third, certain topics include no religious content. The article 'Jamestown, for instance, involves strictly secular history, lacking any mention of Chaplain Robert Hunt or the frequency of prayer book worship. Fourth, some material is not sufficiently updated. The articles Bob Jones University and the 'Jones family neglect the 1982 Supreme Court case dealing with anti-discrimination laws. In the essay Religious Press, the original Interpreter's Bible (1952-57) is noted but not the New Interpreter's Bible (1994-98). The treatment of Dispensationalism mentions Hal Lindsey's Late Great Planet Earth (1970), but ignores Tim LeHaye's Left Behind series. The essay on Martin Luther King, Jr. gives the lengthy title of his doctoral thesis, but fails to note the controversy over plagiarism, the subject of over a hundred pages in the June, 1991 issue of the Journal of American History. …

Book Review: NIB III: The New Interpreter's Bible

Book Review: NIB III: The New Interpreter's Bible

Book Review: The New Interpreter's Bible

Book Review: The New Interpreter's Bible

Book Review: The New Interpreter's Bible

Book Review: The New Interpreter's Bible

The New Interpreter's Bible Volume 1: General and Old Testament Articles, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus; Edited by Leander E. Keck et al. Nashville, Abingdon, 1994. 1195 pp. $65.00

The New Interpreter's Bible Volume 1: General and Old Testament Articles, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus; <i>Edited by Leander E. Keck et al</i>. Nashville, Abingdon, 1994. 1195 pp. $65.00

Reading the Bible as Americans

The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume One, L. E. Keck and others (eds)

Book Review: The New Interpreter's Bible

Book Review: The New Interpreter's Bible

In Search of the Indian Job

legend said to parallel the story of in its essential elements. The majority of such references are to the legend of the pious king Hariscandra; and the fullest accounts of this legend in recent literature may be seen in English in S. Terrien's commentary in G. A. Buttrick (ed.), The Interpreter's Bible 3 (New York and Nashville, 1954), p. 879, and T. H. Gaster's Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament 2 (1967, 1975), pp. 785, 858,1 in French in S. Terrien'sJob (Neuchatel, 1963), pp. 9-10, and in German in C. Kuhl's Neuere Literaturkritik zum Buche Hiob, Theologische Rundschau 21 (1953), p. 295. Shorter accounts have been given by A. T. and M. Hanson,2 N. H. Tur-Sinai,3 and M. H. Pope,4 and it is also briefly referred to by G. Holscher,5 G. Fohrer,6 and H. H. Rowley,7 as well as by H. J. E. Westerman Holstijn, Een 'arische' Jobeide, Nieuwe Theologische Studien 22 (1939), pp. 52-60 (53) (on this article, see section VI below), and S. P. Rao and M. P. Reddy, Job and his Satan-Parallels in Indian Scripture, ZA W 91 (1979), pp. 416-22 (418) (see further, section VII below). Most of these reports of the Indian tale are derivative from that given by A. Lods both in his article Recherches recentes sur le

Priests and Levites in Deuteronomy

central element in critical reconstruction of history of Hebrew priesthood is relationship of priests and Levites. A basic theory of Wellhausen school is that distinction made in Priestly Code between two orders was unknown before Exile; in seventh and early sixth centuries all priests were Levites and all Levites were priests or potential priests. distinction is said to begin with Ezekiel's degradation of idolatrous priestsusually identified as priests of provincial shrines abolished by Josiah-to rank of temple servants (Ezek. xliv 4 ff.). One of assumptions on which this theory is based is that in Deuteronomy Levites and priests are synonymous terms. In 1954 late Professor G. E. Wright published an article, The Levites in Deuteronomy, VT 4 (1954), pp. 325-30, in which he questioned this generally accepted view. He tells how, in his study of Deuteronomy for Interpreter's Bible, he began by accepting commonly held assumptions but was led by a careful examination of text to conclusion that these assumptions had oversimplified matter (p. 326) and that the difference between P and D with regard to Levites has been exaggerated (p. 330). present paper has resulted from similar misgivings arising initially out of writer's independent study of and Levites for Interpreter's Dictionary of Bible. These misgivings have not been silenced by Professor J. A. Emerton's erudite reply to Wright, Priests and Levites in Deuteronomy, VT 12 (1962), pp. 129-38. Indeed it is Emerton's defence of claim that Deuteronomy recognizes right of Levites to act as priests that this paper attempts to examine.

Old Testament Scholarship

Journal Article Old Testament Scholarship: Fifty Years in Retrospect Get access JAMES MUILENBURG JAMES MUILENBURG ** JAMES MUILENBURG it Darenport Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages in Union Theological Seminary, New York. He is author of the article on “The History of the Religion of Israel,” published in Volume I of The Interpreter's Bible, and numerous other writings. Dr. Mtrilenburg's connection with the National Association of Biblical Instructors may be traced back to the annual meeting of 1923 when he read a paper entitled “Teaching the Bible from the Literary Angle,” published in Christian Education (December, 1924). This puts Professor Muilenburg among the “Old Guard” of our Association and he has been one of its most loyal members. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, April 1960, Pages 173–181, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXVIII.2.173 Published: 01 April 1960

The Interpreter's Bible. Vol. V: Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah

The Interpreter's Bible. Vol. V: Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah

Book Review: The Interpreter's Bible

Book Review: The Interpreter's Bible

Book Reviews

Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Interpreter's Bible, Volume 6 (Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, The Twelve Prophets. Edited by GEORGE A. BUTTRICK. New York: The Abingdon Press, 1956. 1144 pages. $8.75. LIONEL A. WHISTON, JR. LIONEL A. WHISTON, JR. Eden Theological Seminary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXV, Issue 4, October 1957, Pages 348–350, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXV.4.348 Published: 01 October 1957

REVIEWS

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access G. A. BUTTRICK (ed.), The Interpreter's Bible, vol. VI. Lamentations-Ezekiel-Daniel-Twelve Prophets. 1956. Pp. xii+1144. ( Abingdon Press, New York and Nashville, and Nelson, Edinburgh. Price: $8.75 and £3.7s. 6d.) N. H. SNAITH N. H. SNAITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semitic Studies, Volume 2, Issue 4, October 1957, Pages 401–403, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/2.4.401 Published: 01 October 1957

Book Review: The Interpreter's Bible

Book Review: The Interpreter's Bible

The Original Form of the Pauline Collection

Through publication in The Interpreter's Bible the theory is being given wide currency that Paul's collected letters were published originally in the form of two papyrus rolls, the first containing Ephesians and I and II Corinthians, the second comprising Romans, I and II Thessalonians, Galatians, Colossians-Philemon, and Philippians.

The Interpreter's Bible. Vol. IV. Psalms, Proverbs

Book Review| December 01 1955 The Interpreter’s Bible. Vol. IV. Psalms, Proverbs The Interpreter’s Bible. Vol. IV. Psalms, Proverbs, G. A. Buttrick. Artur Weiser Artur Weiser Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Biblical Literature (1955) 74 (4): 278–279. https://doi.org/10.2307/3261678 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Artur Weiser; The Interpreter’s Bible. Vol. IV. Psalms, Proverbs. Journal of Biblical Literature 1 December 1955; 74 (4): 278–279. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3261678 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveSBL PressJournal of Biblical Literature Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.