Text Of Psalm Research Articles

Psalm 72 in light of the psychological theories of poverty

Prior to the 1980s, various theories of poverty have been proposed by psychologists, ranging from, but not limited to, ‘naturalizing perspective’, ‘constitutionally inferior perspective’, or ‘nativist perspective’; to the ‘McClelland approach’ (McClelland 1961, 1965, 1973); to the ‘attribution theory’; and to Lewis’ (1975) culture of poverty theory. The theories tease out issues of the accumulated environmental deficits and psychiatric disorders, such as depression as well as the lack of ambition and mental drive to achieve success. However, from the 1980s, psychologists returned to the Lewis’ culture of poverty theory. The World Bank Development Report for 2000–2001’s expansion of Sen’s (1999) theory, which placed emphasis and/as three-pillars on ‘security’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘opportunity’ led for one, among other psychological bodies, the American Psychological Association to consider various conceptualisation of the theories of poverty. The paper tests the psychological theories of poverty against the background of the historical-literary read poetic text of Psalm 72. Does a poetic reading of Psalm 72 bear a psychological meaning when read within the framework of psychological theories of poverty? Firstly, the paper investigates psychological theories of poverty prior to 1980s to the present. Secondly, in a poetically and historically read Psalm 72, the psychological presuppositions are teased out. In the end, the paper submits with caution that when read within the framework of psychological theories of poverty, the poetically read Psalm 72 produces psychological meaning, which contributes value to the reading of Biblical poetic texts.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The article draws on the discipline of psychology, employing the psychology theories of poverty to read an Old Testament poetic text of Psalm 72. The meaning of Psalm 72 is derived from the psychological reading of the historical-literary critically analysed poetic Hebrew Bible text.

Kajian Teologis tentang Mazmur 23:1-6 dan Penerapannya dalam Pelayanan Gereja Masa Kini

Psalm 23:1-6 is one of the most well-known passages in the Christian tradition, portraying the intimate relationship between God as the Shepherd and His people as the sheep. In the context of contemporary church ministry, a deep understanding of these verses is crucial, as they offer theological and practical guidance for the faith community in overcoming various spiritual and emotional challenges. This study aims to explore the theological relevance of Psalm 23 in the context of modern church ministry. The primary objective of this research is to conduct a theological analysis of Psalm 23:1-6 and to explore its application in today's church ministry context. This study also seeks to identify how the principles contained in this Psalm can serve as a foundation for pastoral care, spiritual strengthening, and congregation development in the modern church. The research employs a qualitative approach, using literature review and textual analysis methods. The primary sources used include the Hebrew text of Psalm 23:1-6 and modern translations, while secondary sources comprise various theological literature, Bible commentaries, and writings from related theological experts. This research also utilizes hermeneutical methods to delve deeper into the meaning of the text and its interpretation in various historical and theological contexts. The results indicate that Psalm 23 portrays God as a Shepherd who nourishes, protects, and guides His people, creating a sense of security and trust for those who follow Him. These attributes are relevant to contemporary church ministry, particularly in the context of pastoral care and spiritual support for congregants facing life crises. The findings also suggest that the application of the values contained in Psalm 23 can strengthen church ministry strategies in providing comfort, trust, and hope to its members. This study concludes that Psalm 23 holds strong and practical relevance for modern church ministry, as it offers an ideal depiction of divine care that can be applied in pastoral ministry. The church can use the principles from this Psalm to build trust and hope among congregants, as well as to provide more effective spiritual support in addressing the challenges of modern times.

An Analysis of Inflectional and Derivational Affixes on Psalms Chapters 1-10 From the Bible King James Version

The objective of this study is to identify the inflectional and derivational affixes present in Psalms chapters 1-10 of the King James Version, and to examine the manner in which these affixes are processed. This study employs a qualitative research approach characterized by a descriptive design. When examining the data, the author emphasizes the inflectional and derivational affixes found in the King James translation of the Bible, as outlined by Katamba's theory (1993:40) that states "derivation and inflection are two distinct methods of constructing words." The word formation mechanisms mentioned here can be categorized into two primary types of affix morphemes: derivational affixes and inflectional affixes. The study identified a total of 49 derivational affixes, consisting of 10 prefixes (8.20%), 39 suffixes (31.59%), and 73 inflectional affixes (59.84%). According to the findings of this study, the processing of inflectional affixes is more prevalent than that of derivational affixes when examining the text of Psalms in the King James translation, namely chapters 1-10. The dominance of the suffixes -ed/-d/-ied is due to the prevalence of past tense sentences in the text. This study can serve as a valuable resource for lecturers, particularly those teaching morphology, since it provides clear differentiation between roots and affixes, enabling a comprehensive understanding of the word formation process and the significance of affixes. This study can assist other scholars in analyzing the formation of derivational and inflectional affixes and their processes. This study can serve as a valuable resource for studying vocabulary and word building. Additionally, the study has broader implications, serving as a foundational reference for morphology education, linguistic analysis, and interdisciplinary studies. It enriches our understanding of the linguistic characteristics of the King James Bible, offering insights into the intricate dynamics of word formation within religious texts.

The Use of Psalm 68:19 in Ephesians 4:8 as an Intertextual Study

The text of Psalm 68:19, quoted by Paul and used as a citation in Ephesus, is categorized by biblical scholars as a crux interpretetum, one of the verses that are difficult to interpret. There are two problems found in Paul's use of the quotation from Psalm 68:19 in his writing in Ephesians 4:8, making this a challenging verse to interpret. First, there is no apparent textual connection between Psalm 68:19 and Ephesians 4:3. Second, the motif and meaning of Paul's use of Psalm 68:19 as a reference in Ephesians 4:8 have not been clearly identified by the author. Among the eight biblical scholars, six different answers have been found, each differing from the others. The approach used to analyze the use of Psalm 68:19 in Ephesians is an intertextual approach, which is a method to find solutions to the three issues mentioned above. The result of this research is that Paul quotes Psalm 68:19 in Ephesians 4:8 as the foundation of his kerygma, asserting that his teaching in the context of Ephesians 4 is the same truth as the teaching in Psalm 68:19, which also harmonizes with the context of Numbers 8. The quotation of Psalm 68:19 in Ephesians 4:8 by Paul affirms that what he teaches is the same truth as the Old Testament. God and Jesus Christ are the same Person acting on His people, both giving and receiving among humanity.

Too Good Is Bad: On a Forgotten Translation of the Book of Psalms From 1700

This contribution is devoted to an English translation of the Book of Psalms made by John Caryll and David Nairne at the exiled court of James II in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The Psalmes of David, translated from the Vulgat first printed in 1700, received a corrected and revised edition brought out in 1704. Despite the significant place it occupies in the history of translations of the Psalter from the Vulgate into English, it has hardly received any scholarly attention. The paper examines the circumstances in which this translation emerged, looks at its language and compares it with its rival texts, examines its reception, circulation, and sociolinguistic context with a view to determining why the text ceased to be printed and why it has suffered neglect in the literature dealing with biblical translations. The contribution also presents for the first time the text of Psalm 1 from the newly discovered manuscript version of the Psalmes preserved in SCA in Aberdeen, Scotland.

"In God alone my soul can find rest" (Ps62:2) : Silence and pain in the Psalms and their narrativizations in Taizé

Atheological perspective on dealing with crises that focuses on modes of endurance and gestalt, is supported by interdisciplinary resilience research. How can silence contribute to aproductive coping with crises and pain? Texts and practices of the Christian tradition are discussed with respect to their ways of dealing with critical and painful situations, namely a)the Psalm texts of the Old Testament, which are examined by means of exegetical methods for historical and cultural aspects of meaning and b)the practice of silence in the prayers of the Taizé community, which are examined from anarrative hermeneutical perspective. By understanding silence as an ambiguous and ambivalent phenomenon, it can contribute to aproductive way of dealing with pain that enables perception, confrontation and acceptance. It is crucial not to regard the silence of asufferer as amere endurance, but also to have an eye on the creative potentials. Cultural and religious narratives and practices can help to locate oneself in a"space of silence" in such away that aresilient way of dealing with experiences of pain becomes possible. In order for silence to promote resilience, it is necessary to keep an eye on productive as well as destructive processes of silence as an ambivalent phenomenon: These processes occur in an uncontrollable way and are shaped by implicit normative assumptions. Silence can be experienced as loneliness, isolation and the loss of quality of life, or silence can become aplace of encounter, of arrival, of security, and in prayer of trust in God.

Juxtaposition as literary feature in Psalm 116

Identifying literary devices used in the (Hebrew) Old Testament serves as an aid to the understanding of a particular passage. In this contribution, juxtaposition as a literary device in Psalm 116 was investigated. A brief overview of the main problems in the research history of the Psalm is given, highlighting the date and composition, as well as the enigmatic verse 15. Drawing on other definitions of the term juxtaposition, the term was defined as a literary device used to imply comparison and especially contrast. In the rest of the article, juxtaposition as a literary device in this Psalm was investigated and eight different modes of juxtaposition were identified. It is argued that juxtaposition is the dominating and most prominent literary device that occurs in the Psalm. Finally, the contribution that the identification of juxtaposition as literary device makes to the understanding of this Psalm, was briefly discussed. Methodologically, the literary feature of juxtaposition was demonstrated through a careful reading of the text of Psalm 116. Once that was done, it became apparent that juxtaposition plays an important part in this psalm. The juxtaposition is of death versus life: it is an experience of the absence of YHWH in a Sheol-like situation in juxtapposition to the presence of YHWH in the temple; the temporal shift between present and past and the juxtaposition between the individual believer vis-à-vis the community of believers, all adds up to the conclusion that the Psalm displays a coherent unity, exactly because of the literary device of juxtaposition. Reading Scripture with a sensitivity to the literary devices that may be detected in passages of Scripture, is a rewarding exercise. It opens new possibilities to explore the meaning(s) these ancient texts have also for modern-day readers of the Bible.Contribution: Although juxtaposition as literary device has been pointed out in previous research publications on Psalm 116, the specific contribution of this article is to demonstrate that juxtaposition is the dominating literary device in the psalm. Psalm 116 has been seen in the past as a disunity made up of incoherent parts. The frequent occurrence of juxtaposition throughout the psalm adds to the unity of the psalm. Recognising juxtaposition as the dominating literary device adds new light on the theological meaning of the psalm and this fits in well with the focus of In die Skriflig to come to a better understanding of the Bible.

An injured and sick body – Perspectives on the theology of Psalm 38

Descriptions of body imagery and body parts are evident in expressions of Old Testament texts. Although there is no single term for ‘body’ in the Hebrew mind, the concept of ‘body’ functions in its different parts. As part of anthropomorphic descriptions of God and expressions attached to humankind, body parts have special significance, contributing to the theological dimension of texts. The poems in the Psalter are no exception. Several body parts are mentioned in Psalm 38, an individual lament song. In addition to God’s hand (v. 3) and an allusion to his voice (v. 16), several body parts describe the psalmist’s condition. These include ‘flesh’ (bāšār, 3, 8), bones (‘ætsæm, 3), head (rôsh, 5), loins (kæsæl, 8), heart (lēb, 9, 11), eyes (‘yn, 11), mouth (pæh, 14, 15), and feet (rægæl, 17). In addition, allusions to the ear (14, 15) and injured body (wounds, 6) form part of the psalmist’s lamenting experience.Contribution: This presentation touches on the general meaning of these body imagery in the Old Testament and their specific function and meaning in the text of Psalm 38. A textual analysis will portray their theological significance.

Psalms 90, 91 and 92 as a means of coping with trauma and adversity

ABSTRACT Psychology has an interest in the ways in which religion can aid coping with life’s adverse events, as most, perhaps all, individuals will face trauma or adversity at some point in life. The COVID19 pandemic has created adversity for individuals and societies globally and has for many been the cause of traumatic events. Religious coping in the face of crisis is not merely a contemporary phenomenon. This paper argues that several religious coping mechanisms can be found within the texts of Psalms 90, 91 and 92 of the Hebrew Bible. These psalms may represent a community’s attempt to cope with the aftermath of a society-wide traumatic event, such as the 6th Century BCE Exile to Babylon. This paper reads these psalms through the lens of coping theory, explores how a traumatic event may have influenced their composition, and considers ways in which they might be used in pastoral situations today.

Mechanisms of Interaction of Verbal and Musical Text of Psalms in Multimodal Liturgical Discourse

Mechanisms of Interaction of Verbal and Musical Text of Psalms in Multimodal Liturgical Discourse

Psalms of Ascent

This article uses Hermann Gunkel’s form-critical approach in studying the fifteen short ‘Psalms of Ascent’ (Psalms 120–134). Jewish tradition as well as subsequent scholarship associates these Psalms with the Biblical Pilgrim festivals in Jerusalem, sung by the pilgrims on their way but later incorporated into cultic rites within the Temple. Gunkel’s analysis identifies templates which serve as frameworks for both simple and complex artistic variations. Using the form-critical approach descriptively rather than prescriptively, the article uses the identification of formal elements primarily as a tool for understanding the language, themes, message and mood of these Psalm texts. A study of King Solomon’s dedicatory prayer (1 Kings 8 and 2 Chronicles 6) in conjunction with Psalm 132 indicates a new locus of performance in a ritual in modern synagogue liturgy.

Post-traumatic Growth, Belief in a Just World, and Psalm 137:9

The historical background of Psalm 137, the traumatic event of the exile, makes it appropriate to read this psalm from the post-traumatic perspective. Most of the time, a trauma may negatively harm the mental health of its victim(s), but sometimes it may positively contribute to the mental development of the victim(s). Post-traumatic growth defines the positive psychological changes that result from a traumatic event, and the possession of belief in a just world is an indicator of post-traumatic growth. The textual evidence shows that the speaker of Psalm 137 is in the process of post-traumatic growth and that the speaker's belief in a just world, which is reflected in the text of Psalm 137:9, is at the core of this growth. The concept of post-traumatic growth and the belief in a just world work together to make sense of the language of violence in Psalm 137:9.

ПСАЛМОВІ ТЕКСТИ В УКРАЇНСЬКОМУ ДУХОВНОМУ КОНЦЕРТІ ДОБИ БАРОКО І КЛАСИЦИЗМУ: МИСТЕЦЬКІ ПАРАЛЕЛІ

The purpose of the article is to identify common and distinctive features, to determine artistic parallels in the choral sacred music of the Baroque and Classicism through the prism of using psalms of texts. Research methods are used by researcher at the represented scientific article the next, a namely historical-typological, stylistic, structural-analytical, and comparative. Scientific novelty. For the first time, it is traced how the principle of selection of psalm lines affects the compositional structure and content of concerts. Conclusions. Analysis of the material of East Slavic spiritual chants using the example of the genre of a choral concert in its baroque and early classical varieties allows us to make some generalizations on the use of psalm texts. In the selection of psalm texts for concerts from the handwritten set of the Mikhailovsky Monastery, the main tendencies characteristic of European church music are noted. Among the verbal texts, we can find psalms in fragmentary liturgical use, contamination of separate lines of one or different psalms, and with other texts. Note, however, that when writing concertos on selected lines from the psalms, priority is given to the opening passages of the psalms. Poetic versions of the psalms are also found, but it is unlikely that they were intended for church use. The principle of grouping the psalms of the lines influenced the form of choral concerts, where the desire for isolation is traced: in the partisan version, the text-musical lowercase contrasting-composite form acquires features of reprisal (figurative, and at times also intonational), and the features of the four-part cycle, outlined in the part, are the most are evident in the early classical choral version. In the latter, the principle of contrasting comparison of images, tempos, individualized thematicism is more clearly visible, even before the appearance of signs of popular everyday dances. The consistent disclosure of the content of the text did not require balancing the proportions of the sections in the partisan concert «As the hart panteth after the water brooks» («Ymzhe obrazom zhelaet»), while in the spiritual concert «I will love thee, O Lord, my strength» («Vozliubliu tia, Hospody»), a similar tendency is outlined in the arrangement of the psalms of the text in parts, which is associated with both dramatic deployment and with purely musical means of material development.

ПСАЛМОВІ ЦИКЛИ В ХОРОВІЙ ТВОРЧОСТІ ГЕНРІХА ШЮТЦА

The purpose of the article is to consider options for the embodiment of The Psalms’ texts in the choral work by Heinrich Schutz. The research methodology consists of the application of comparative, historical-logical, and semantic methods. This approach allows us to reveal the peculiarities of the composer’s work with the texts of The Psalms in the context of the main tendencies of the era, to examine the degree of spreading into the original source, identify the primary means of reading verbal text via music. Scientific novelty. Heinrich Schutz’s work is considered for the first time in domestic music studies from the point of view of the importance of the most common texts in the music of the early Baroque psalms. Psalm texts are the basis for almost half of all the vocal work of the composer. The interest in the music of H. Schut is due to the activation of performing interest in Baroque sacred music and the practical need for training courses in the history of music, the history of choral literature and others to update the material. Conclusions. The article has outlined the main tendencies of The Psalms’ texts implementation within the choral work by Heinrich Schut, which were the 16th – 18th-century music patterns. They are 1) motet/concert compositions’ settings to psalms; 2) poetic psalms melodies witting and adaptation. The author analyses the composer’s hermeneutical approach to verbal texts when creating motets. The critical factor in the formation of semantic fields in the motet is music. It was learned that motets are mostly written on the full texts of the psalms without significant interference; concerts written on compiled texts; texts’ reduction are less common. The article emphasises that in the process of a choral interpretation of the psalms, the composer took into consideration the peculiarities of the poetics of the original source, syntactic features of the verbal text, performance and practical needs, used rhetorical figures.

Theologies of Illness, Now and Then: Reading Psalm 6 in Light of Personalistic Medicine Systems

Abstract This essay offers a reading of Psalm 6 and of its theology of illness that aims to be both faithful to the text and helpful to readers that use the psalm in faith settings. It identifies one’s underlying assumptions about the nature of illness as a major interpretive issue and contends that modern interpreters have been unnecessarily influenced by naturalistic medicine systems in their understanding of this psalm. It is the major claim of this essay that a theological reading that remains faithful to the text of Psalm 6 is possible when the reader adopts the perception of illness held by personalistic medicine systems.

WABAH COVID 19 DAN JAMINAN PERLINDUNGAN ALLAH DALAM MAZMUR 23

This article focuses on the COVID-19 information that has hit various countries in the world and results in high mortality rates. In Indonesia, various information emerged from social media that caused pressure, fear and even stress. This article is a literature review with a qualitative approach to the text of Psalm 23 about attitudes taken to deal with pressure or COVID-19. The purpose of writing is to raise the theological significance of Psalm 23 and implement it into the life experiences of believers today, where everyone is in a plague situation. Psalm 23 is considered appropriate because it talks about three themes namely the exposition in this paper namely nurture (vv. 1-3), guarding (v. 4) and fellowship with God (vv. 5-6). The analysis is carried out by conducting a hermenetic study, which is combined with narrative analysis.

Intertestamental, Apocrypha, NT Use: Qumran

Intertestamental, Apocrypha, NT UseQumran Christopher T. Begg and Joseph E. Jensen 1499. [Psalm 151 (11Q5)] Marcin Biegas, "Postac Dawida w hebrajskiej wersji Psalmu 151 (11Q5) [The Figure of David in the Hebrew Version of Psalm 151]," BibAn 8 (2018) 5-28. Until the discovery of the DSS, Psalm 151 was known only through its Greek and Latin versions as these appear in the LXX and Vulgate Book of Psalms. In addition, a Syriac translation of the psalm that was included in a tenth cent. a.d. collection of Apocryphal Psalms was known as well. In 1965, James Sanders published the Psalms Scroll (11Q5), a collection of mostly Hebrew psalms with counterparts in the MT Psalter, discovered in Qumran Cave 11, that also included a Hebrew text of Psalm 151. This article focuses on the figure of David as depicted in Psalm 151, which retells, in poetic form, the story of the son of Jesse as related in 1 Samuel 16–17. B. divides his article into two parts: In the first, he discusses the Psalms Scroll in general and reviews the scholarly discussion concerning Psalm 151 in particular. The second part provides the Hebrew text of the psalm along with [End Page 512] a Polish translation of this and linguistic, syntactical, and theological remarks concerning it. [Adapted from published abstract] 1500. [DSS] Lutz Doering, "Law and Lawlessness in Texts from Qumran," Law and Lawlessness, 9-28 [see #1560]. In his essay, D. examines the centrality of law-abidance in the documents from Qumran, arguing that on the whole the texts display a general ethos of law-abidance and a similar conceptualization of sin and transgression. The Qumran documents do not understand the term "lawlessness" in the sense of an exemption from the law for the sectarians; rather, lawlessness is taken as a matter of disregard for, or disobedience to the law on the part of (other) Israelites. As such, the term occurs mostly in three connections in the Scrolls: first as the historic lawlessness of Israel, from which those seeking initiation into the Qumran group had to return to the Torah of Moses; second, as a (re)lapse of group members or initiates into various kinds of lawlessness; and third, as the present lawlessness of others, such as those whose practices are guided by a "wrong" calendar, a corrupt legal tradition, or a faulty understanding of the Torah. [Adapted from published abstract] 1501. [Zion Psalm from Wadi Murabba>at] Ariel Feldman, "An Overlooked Psalm Addressing Zion from Wadi Murabba>at," JBL 138 (2019) 365-76. This note revisits a psalm addressing Zion Mur 6, a scroll found in the caves of Wadi Murabba>at. It offers a revised edition of the psalm based on recent infrared images and attempts to situate it within the wider group of Second Temple texts addressing Jerusalem. [Adapted from published abstract] 1502. [DSS; Prophetic Books] Simone Pagani, "Biblische Prophetie in der Bibliothek am Toten Meer. Einige Beobachtungen zu den Prophetenschriften in den Dead Sea Scrolls," Profeti Maggiori e Minori, 25-36 [see #1625]. P.'s short article begins with summary comments on the Qumran site, its (non-Essene) inhabitants, and the DSS as a whole. It then focuses on the corpus of 44 manuscripts—many of them quite fragmentary—containing portions of the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Here P provides information concerning the DSS witnesses to the Books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve, and their textual character (proto-MT, proto-LXX, "unaligned") represented by these. He concludes with three theses concerning, respectively, the relationship between the MT and the DSS text of the Prophetic Books, the Twelve Prophets as a collection in the DSS witnesses, and the importance of prophecy in Second Temple Judaism vis-à-vis the relative "unimportance" of the prophetic books themselves as suggested by the above-mentioned fact that among the some 1,000 manuscripts recovered from the Judean Desert area only 44 are of the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. 1503. [DSS; Genesis 12–50] Marek Parchem, "Księga Rodzaju 12–50 w Qumran: Interpretacja opowiadań o patriachach w wybranych tekstach z Pustyni Judzkiej [Genesis...

Poetic and music interpretations of Twelfth Psalm (Artemij Vedel, Taras Shevchenko, Myroslav Skoryk)

Relevance of the study. The Book of Psalms has always been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for many generations of artists, and still has not lost its relevance. The Ukrainian musical art has created a huge array of works of different genres on the basis of psalm texts, including various translations, which opens up wide opportunities to study several musical interpretations of the literary primary source. The main objective of the study deals with the features of the conceptual dramaturgy in the author’s interpretations of Psalm No. 12 by T. Shevchenko and M. Skoryk comparing it with the Church Slavonic source and its reading in the sacred concerto by A. Vedel.The scientific novelty of the research lies in the analysis of microintonation deployment in the choir “Are you my dear God forever forget me?” by M. Skoryk, in identifying features of the conceptual dramaturgy of the work in its indissoluble connection with the verbal basis — the author’s poetic translation of Psalm No. 12 by T. Shevchenko. In the article for the first time the comparative method was used concerning musical works written in different verbal texts (Church Slavonic — in the concert of A. Vedel “Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord?” and the poetic arrangement of the psalm in the choir by M. Skoryk). This specificity needs the consideration of peculiarities existing in the interaction of text and music at the level of compositional and dramaturgic plans of two works.The research methodology is based on a combination of the empirical method and general scientific and logical methods of analysis and synthesis, methods of theoretical and historical musicology, which allowed us to analyze the composition and expressive means used by composers, to identify the style features of the works. The hermeneutic approach has been applied in the analysis of concepts of elements considered and involved in spiritual works. The use of the comparative method has made it possible to consider two verbal versions of Psalm No. 12, to reveal the measure of correspondence to the verbal source of the musical interpretation of the Psalm in the work of M. Skoryk and finally reveal common and distinctive features in two musical interpretations of the Psalm by A. Vedel and M. Skoryk.Results and conclusions of the study. The composition and dramaturgical specificity of two verbal texts has been outlined and the relationship with it of two musical interpretations has been considered. The micro-intonational process of unfolding in M. Skoryk's choir has been revealed, the role of tonal dramaturgy, in particular two planes — flat and sharp, connected with negative and positive images, respectively, were noted. Extremely delicate sensation by the composer of the structure of Shevchenko's text and its adequate embodiment in the compositional work plan were emphasized. The common in the reading of the psalm by both composers has been noted as an extremely dramatic text including the sixth verse of glorification. At the same time, an idea was expressed about the more tragic character in M. Skoryk’s interpretation in comparison with Shevchenkov’s poetic arrangement. A great measure of “theatricalization” (personalization and visualization) has been noted in the concerto of A. Vedel, as well as the dynamic characteristic of modern man in the sense of time — in the work of M. Skoryk, which manifests itself in the aphoristic nature of the statement.

TRADITIONS OF CHORAL CONCERT IN THE PSALMODY OF H. HAVRYLETS

The purpose of the article. The article analyzes the choral works, based on the psalm texts, by Hanna Havry- lets, the famous Ukrainian composer, laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize. Ukrainian composers of past epochs repeatedly referred to these texts, using them to create their choral concerts. In the works of H. Havrylets, the psalm texts receive a new musical interpretation, enriched by the modern interpretation of genre traditions and innovations of the musical language. The methodology of the research is a comprehensive approach to the study of this phenomenon. It is based on the reference to the historical and analytical methods. The historical method provides grounds for identify- ing several traditional features that can be found in choral concerts written over the past time. The analytical method al- lows making reasonable conclusions regarding the peculiarities of the implementation of the psalm texts in large concert compositions for the choir. The scientific novelty of the work is in resolving the range of issues by critically analyzing of already known regulations regarding the genre of a choral concert in the works of Ukrainian composers of past epochs and modernity. It is noted that in H. Havrylets‘s choral works, based on the psalm texts, she offers different plot- dramaturgical and musical interpretation of the content of these texts, shifting attention from the individual to the gen- eral. The conclusions indicate that the subject of the article extends to the field of modern Ukrainian choral music and reflects one of its tendencies related to the interpretation and modernization of the long-standing traditions of choral sing- ing in the musical art at the turn of XX – XXI centuries.

The First English Printed Psalters — George Joye’s Translations and Their Editions

The paper discusses four English Psalters which are the work of a prominent, although largely forgotten, English protestant George Joye, whose first English translation of the whole Psalter appeared in Antwerp in 1530. The original publication was followed by two reprints, both of which appeared in London in 1534 and 1544. The fourth publication, which appeared in Antwerp in 1534, was a new translation prepared by Joye on the basis of a different Latin text. The text of Psalm 1 from each of these publications is provided, enabling the comparison of the differences displayed by the texts in question so characteristic of early print.