Psalms 101-150 [Paperback]

A psalm-by-psalm presentation of the New English Bible text, with introductory material and commentaries.The commentary strikes a balance between the spiritual, historical, form-critical and cultic approaches and brings out the religious teaching of permanent value.The commentary strikes a balance between the spiritual, historical, form-critical and cultic approaches and brings out the religious teaching of permanent value.This volume follows the general pattern of the series, opening with a discussion of content, of authorship, and of the way the collection came to be put together, followed by a psalm-by-psalm presentation of the New English Bible text with commentary. Dr Rogerson and Dr McKay stress the richness and variety of the material in the Psalms, and provide an analytical table of the predominant themes. They discuss the literary characteristics of Hebrew poetry with special reference to devices such as the acrostic, and examine the problems faced by the New English Bible translators. Over the years many different approaches have been made to the interpretation of the Psalms. The authors characterize these as the spiritual, the historical, the form-critical and the cultic approaches, and their own commentary strikes an effective balance between them. One of their primary purposes is to bring out the religious teaching that is of permanent value within the Psalms.The footnotes to the N.E.B. text; Names, content and place of the book in the Old Testament; Psalm titles, authorship and growth of the Psalter; History of interpretation; The character of the N.E.B. translation; Literary and poetic characteristics of the psalms; The contents of the Psalter; Index.