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132 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE AND IDENTITY IN THE PSALMS HARRY P. NASUTI Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458 It requires little form-critical sophistication to recognize the difference between the psalms and the narrative material that one finds in a num- ber of other biblical books. As both poetry and prayer, the psalms clearly belong to a different literary genre than the prose narrative that relates Israel's history. It would, however, be wholly inaccurate to see the psalms as lacking in either historical reference or narrative force. A number of psalms contain allusions to Israel's historical narrative, and certain psalms are almost entirely devoted to recounting various aspects of that narrative. 1 Form-critical scholarship on the psalms has achieved a fair amount of consensus concerning the role historical allusions play in the literary genres of which they are a part. Much less settled are the larger implications of these elements for how one understands such central questions as the biblical view of history and the nature and purpose of worship. Indeed, recent attempts to move beyond the standard form-critical understand- ing of the psalms to a more post-critical perspective have reopened the debate on these issues in a dynamic way. The
Horizons in Biblical Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2001
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