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Sing Unto God a New Song Herbert J. Levine

Sing Unto God a New Song By Herbert J. Levine

Sing Unto God a New Song by Herbert J. Levine


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Investigates the rhetorical strategies of the psalmists. This book explores their struggles to reconcile faith in God with the experience of undeserved suffering. It also examines how the psalmists' sense of their own lives interacted with idealized notions of sacred time and space.

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Sing Unto God a New Song Summary

Sing Unto God a New Song: A Contemporary Reading of the Psalms by Herbert J. Levine

. . . [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. -Arthur Green, Brandeis University

. . . offers some remarkable new angles on familiar material. Literary and religious insights are not often woven together so closely as they are here. -Theological Book Review

The arrival of Herbert Levine's Sing Unto God a New Song came as both a surprise and a pleasure. It is full of absorbing insights. . . . This is a rich book which is concerned with not only the theory but also the practice of reading the same psalms in several different ways. -Church Times

This reading of the Psalms, from the twin perspectives of poetry and ritual, is quite an achievement: it is deeply Jewish and religious while, at the same time, profoundly scholarly. -Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Drawing on a variety of critical perspectives, Herbert Levine offers revelatory readings of one of the most familiar and best loved books of the Bible.

Sing Unto God a New Song 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. Arthur Green, Brandeis University ... offers some remarkable new angles on familiar material. Literary and religious insights are not often woven together so closely as they are here. Theological Book Review The arrival of Herbert Levine's Sing Unto God a New Song came as both a surprise and a pleasure. It is full of absorbing insights... This is a rich book which is concerned with not only the theory but also the practice of reading the same psalms in several different ways. Church Times This reading of the Psalms, from the twin perspectives of poetry and ritual, is quite an achievement: it is deeply Jewish and religious while, at the same time, profoundly scholarly. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

About Herbert J. Levine

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

Additional information

CIN0253333415G
9780253333414
0253333415
Sing Unto God a New Song: A Contemporary Reading of the Psalms by Herbert J. Levine
Used - Good
Hardback
Indiana University Press
1995-03-22
300
N/A
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