Synopses & Reviews
"... [a] brilliant study... a valuable addition to the literature on the Psalms." --Indiana University Jewish Studies Program
"A superbly interesting book on the Psalms. Levine understands the relationship between literary and religious questions and uses an impressive array of tools to get at them. His sophisticated methods of reading are presented in clear and often elegant writing."
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-272) and indexes.
About the Author
Herbert J. Levine received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. He taught for 15 years in the Department of English at Franklin and Marshall College and also taught Bible at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He is the author of Yeats's Daimonic Renewal, another work that addresses the intersecting concerns of spirituality and poetics.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. From Tradition to Modernity: Toward a Contemporary Approach to the Psalms
II. The World of the Psalms: The Perspective of Ritual
III. An Audience with the King: The Perspective of Dialogue
IV. From Here to Eternity: The Perspectives of Time and Space
V. Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death and Beyond: The Psalms and Jewish National Catastrophe
Notes
Works Cited
Index to Scriptural and Rabbinic Passages
General Index