TY - JOUR
AU - Frydrych, Tomas
AB - REVIEWS closely linked to the king and the court. This would be fine, except there is no real discussion of other interpretations, and thus this bypasses a rather large scholarly consensus that many of the psalms of lament and thanksgiving may originally have had less to do with the Temple and more to do with popular piety, leading to the conclusion that they may well be later post-exilic compositions. Neither R. Albertz nor Z. Zevit is referred to in this work: yet their observations and conclusions would have produced some fascinating, broader-reaching implications for Tomes’s basic thesis, and would have complemented his discussion of the earlier studies of C. Westermann and W. Brueggemann. The second example is of a literary-critical kind, and is found at the very end of the book, where Tomes, taking up some of M. Goulder’s work on the collections within the Psalter, engages with the growing interest in the structure and arrange- ment of the psalms (possibly without distinguishing clearly between Goulder’s ap- proach and the very different approaches to this in more recent German and American scholarship). The brief reading of the interrelationship of four significant laments (Psalms 25–8) failed to do justice to 
TI - Gary N. Knoppers, 1 Chronicles 1–9: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary.Gary N. Knoppers, 1 Chronicles 10–29: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary.
JF - Journal of Semitic Studies
DO - 10.1093/jss/fgm014
DA - 2007-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/gary-n-knoppers-1-chronicles-1-9-a-new-translation-with-introduction-jhmQLrL3WP
SP - 384
EP - 385
VL - 52
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -