Recently, a few scholars questioned the thesis of a prophetic persona responsible for Isaiah 40-55/66. It has been argued (by Prof. Ulrich Berges and others) that temple singers / musicians (as we hear of them in postexilic ...

A new psalm had to be composed for new circumstances. It made use of a well-known oracle of God, but in a new political, social, religious, and/or historical context, that oracle had a new message. In a context of praise, ...

This article begins by making a number of general observations on the meaning of (biblical) figures of speech. The images found in Psalm 1 are subsequently investigated in more detail. This is done with the help of syntactic, ...

The focus of this article is on the function and aim of the mythopoetic passage in Psalm 77: 17-20 - a psalm which probably reflects the fall of the northern kingdom. It will be argued that these verses do not constitute ...

A structural analysis of Ps 88 serves as a point of departure for a study of the poetics and especially the sound patterns and other stylistic figures that characterize the psalm. The ways in which sonic figures can serve ...

Psalm 27 has some unique interpretational difficulties. The article briefly refers to the various ways in which its arrangement of elements has been explained. It then attempts to understand the psalm within its literary ...

Differences in the sequencing of Psalms 25–34 (MT ↔ 4Q83 and 4Q98) as well as an asymmetry (Ps 26/32–33 = B/B’) within its chiastic structure (ABCDXD’C’B’A’) raise questions about the history of this small composition. ...