This unique volume on the Psalms is the final Hebrew Bible installment of the Texts@Contexts series. Each contribution provides a contextual reflection on a Psalm as chosen by the contributor. These contributions take account of the contributor's own personal context or the contexts of those around them, providing readings that are varied in geographical and linguistic scope, that reflect on pressing themes such as immigration, diversity, race, marginalized voices (such as those of adults with learning disabilities) and postcolonialism. Scholars also reflect on their own contexts of research and education. Taken together the contributions to this volume provide a sort of contextual commentary on the Psalms, gathering a wide range of voices and reflecting a diverse range of cultural afterlives of the Psalms.

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Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Athalya Brenner-Idan and Gale A. Yee

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Bloomsbury Academic

Cassell

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Texts @ Contexts

2023

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Series Preface
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION FROM ’AŠREY (BLESSED* – PSALM 1.1) TO HALLELUJAH (PRAISE YAH – PSALM 150.6) Athalya Brenner-Idan and Gale A. Yee
PSALM 6: PLEA, PROTEST, ANGER, DISCIPLINE, WEARINESS, DELIVERANCE John Goldingay
PSALM 8: THE POOR AND THE EARTH CRY OUT Nicole L. Tilford
PSALM 8: HOW I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE BIBLE Francis Landy
PSALM 18.35: GIVING DAVID ODYSSEUS’ BOW Sivan Nir
PSALM 19: THE VOICE THAT IS NOT HEARD Robert Paul Seesengood and Jennifer L. Koosed
PSALM 20: WHEN GOD CROSSES BORDERS Roger S. Nam
PSALM 23: A MOVING, VERSATILE POEM Lieve Teugels
PSALM 23: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND INTERTEXTUAL READING Musa W. Dube
PSALM 37: LIVING FAITHFULLY D.N. Premnath
PSALM 39: SILENCE THAT SPEAKS Mercedes L. García Bachmann
PSALM 46: PRESENCE, WAR-LANGUAGE, AND FEMINIST DIRECTION Beth LaNeel Tanner
PSALM 49: TWO UNSOLVED RIDDLES AND ONE NEW PROVERB Klaas Spronk
PSALM 51: A MAN RENEGOTIATING HEROISM Mikael Larsson
PSALM 68: FURTHER HARMOLODIC MUSINGS Hugh R. Page, Jr
PSALM 71: DO NOT DUMP ME IN TIME OF OLD AGE Athalya Brenner-Idan
PSALM 73: BUT I... (WA’ÃNÎ) Ekaputra Tupamahu
PSALM 78.67-72: KING DAVID AND THE CHINESE ‘MANDATE OF HEAVEN’ Archie C.C. Lee
PSALM 84: WHERE IS HOME? Meira Polliack
PSALM 90: IT SOON BECOMES EMPTY – MY CHINESE READING OF THE PSALM Yanjing Qu
PSALM 90: IN PRAISE OF PSALM 90 Jonathan Magonet
PSALM 91: LIFE IN THE SHELTER OF THE ‘MOST HIGH’ Susan Gillingham
PSALM 100: ‘WORSHIP THE LORD WITH ROUSING ACCLAMATION!’ Vanessa Lovelace
PSALM 104: A DISCOMFORTABLE READING BY AN IMPLICATED SUBJECT Gerrie Snyman
PSALM 104: HUMANITY’S FIRM GROUNDING Nancy L. DeClaissé-Walford
PSALM 104: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ITS ENDING Yairah Amit
PSALM 106: BLESSED LIVING AS A MIXED-RACE DESCENDANT Lisa J. Cleath
PSALM 114: A BEAUTIFUL COUNTER-CULTURAL PSALM Marc Zvi Brettler
PSALM 117: A HYMN OF STEADFAST LOVE Barbara E. Reid
PSALM 118: POETRY AND POETICS THROUGH A PAST IN SCIENCE Kevin D. Chau
PSALM 121: IN THREE RECEPTIONS Gerald West
PSALM 121: ASCENDING TO THE HOLY WITH THE PSALM Marvin A. Sweeney
PSALM 121: AND SYNAGOGUE MUSIC— HOPE IN A MINOR KEY Helen Leneman
PSALM 121: WHY THIS PSALM IS POPULAR IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL Ora Brison
PSALM 123: THE ‘FLOW’ OF SEEING Monica Jyotsna Melanchton
PSALM 126: WEEPING, REAPING, AND DINING Adele Reinhartz
PSALM 126: COMMEMORATING THE DEAD DURING THE LOCKDOWN, 2020 Ingeborg Löwisch
PSALM 126: THOSE WHO SOW SHALL REAP IN TEARS Assnat Bartor
PSALM 127.2: HE GIVETH UNTO HIS BELOVED IN SLEEP – AND WHAT ABOUT ME? A PERSONAL STORY OF PSALM 127 Sabine Dievenkorn
PSALMS 127–128: WHOSE LABOR? WHOSE HANDS? Gale A. Yee
PSALM 132: LIFEGIVING CONVERSATIONS WITH A PSALM Melody D. Knowles
PSALM 136: THE POWER OF A LIST Diana Lipton
PSALM 137: A KAU’I-TALANOA READING Nasili Vaka’uta
PSALM 137: EMOTIONS OF THE EXILES IN A FOREIGN LAND Wei Huang
PSALM 137: SONG OF A BROKEN HEART Hemchand Gossai
PSALM 139: FULLY KNOWN Margaret Aymer
PSALM 146: A NATIVE RESTORYING OF THE PSALM UNDER TSUNAMI AND COVID WAVES Jione Havea
PSALM 150: HALLELU, HALLELU, HALLELUJAH Dominic Mattos
Index of Biblical References
Index of Authors

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