Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Reading Lamentations 1 as a Polyphony Chapter 3: Reading Lamentations 2 as a Polyphony Chapter 4: Reading Lamentations 3 as a Polyphony Chapter 5: Reading Lamentations 4 as a Polyphony Chapter 6: Reading Lamentations 5 as a Polyphony Chapter 7: Reading the Book of Lamentations as a Polyphony Summary and Conclusions: The Hermeneutical Implications of Polyphony Conclusions Bibliography

'Perhaps there is Hope': Reading Lamentations as a Polyphony of Pain, Penitence, and Protest

Over the past decade there has been an unprecedented explosion of interest in the book of Lamentations This increased attention has led to the writing of more dissertations, monographs and articles since 1990 than had been pro duced in the previous half century This article offers a brief overview of some of the more important aspects of that research, as well as a summary of the significant trends in scholarship that have surfaced in the past several yearsA more relentlessly brutal piece of writing is scarcely imaginable This short biblical book affronts the reader with a barrage of harsh and violent imagesthe reader is not so much engaged by the book of Lamentations as assaulted by it (Linafelt 2000: 2)The Book of Lamentations calls its readers to remember the sacred events of their past, to reflect on them, to relive them again, to learn from them, and eventually to find hope in that knowledge (Polan 1996: 16)

The Book of Lamentations in Recent Research

The Editing of the Hebrew Psalter

It is often argued that the Masoretic “Book” of Psalms is a carefully redacted collection whose final shape carries substantial interpretive significance. The way psalms are placed in sequence is d ...

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A “Book” of Psalms in 4QMidrEschata.b?

Wahrend Bezugnahmen von Ps 1 auf Passagen aus dem Korpus der “Nebiim” allgemein anerkannt sind, gilt dies nicht in demselben Masse im Blick auf die “Tora” (Pentateuch). Dass dem aber so ist, will dieser Essay nachweisen. Die Analyse der Eroffnungsverse zeigt, dass der Tora-Bezug namentlich uber Anspielungen an Passagen aus dem Deuteronomium hergestellt wird. Ein besonderer Stellenwert kommt dabei Dtn 6,4-9 (v.a. V. 7) zu—ein Text, der wie kaum ein anderer im Fruhjudentum bekannt war und damit als Verstehenshintergrund von Ps 1,1-2 entsprechend wiedererkannt werden konnte. Affinitaten ergeben sich ferner zu Dtn 17,14-20 und Dtn 33,29, die noch verstarkt werden, wenn die Verklammerung (Makarismus- Inclusio) des weisheitlichen Ps 1 mit dem koniglichen Ps 2 mitbedacht wird. Mit Ps 1(-2) als bewusst gesetzter “Bucheroffnung” wird nicht nur eine Lesesteuerung in den Psalter hinein (Innenraum), sondern zugleich eine Anbindung an bereits vorliegende autoritative Schriftgestalten bezweckt (“Aussenraum”). Insofern ...

Psalm 1 als Tor zur Tora JHWHs. Wie Ps 1 (und Ps 2) den Psalter an den Pentateuch anschliesst

With the help of reception-aesthetic considerations and with regard to the hermeneutics of the book and canonical theology, the beginning of the book of Psalms is interpreted as an introduction to the message of the whole book. Because the reader encounters the book primarily in the form of a consecutive reading from one psalm to the next, and since Pss 1–3 each involves a new theme and level of communication (which is no longer the case with Ps 4), the article argues for a threefold overture: “(Torah-)Wisdom” (Ps 1), the “Royal rule of God and his anointed” (Ps 2), and “praying with David” (Ps 3) are the three main theological and spiritual themes of the Psalter. The commonly held opinion that Pss 1 and 2 form a double portal into the Psalter is brought into question since the pairing of Pss 1–2 on the one hand and the grouping of Pss 3–14 as the first ensemble of the first Davidic Psalter (Pss 3–41*) on the other is perceptible only after a re-reading and memorizing of the book. Two different techniques of arrangement of psalms should be recognized: The prayers (of David), beginning with Ps 3, are placed in a series of adjacent psalms. But from time to time wisdom- and royal psalms are inserted at (the most) strategic places in order to interrupt the main line of prayer for theological reflection. Some hints are given of how the themes addressed in Pss 1–3 as the overture to the Psalter are developed in the book as a whole.

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Die Buchouvertüre Psalm 1-3 und ihre Bedeutung für das Verständnis des Psalters

Psalm 1 is described in this paper as an entity, but also from a canonical perspective as an introduction into the Psalter, a capacity in 
which it was perhaps meant to guide the reader towards the 'correct' 
understanding of the book of Psalms. In the final section, the horizon 
towards a Biblical Theology is opened from Ps 1, since the psalm 
could be understood as the nucleus of such a theology.

Psalm 1 and its function as a directive into the Psalter and towards a Biblical Theology

The barely-ventilated secrets that involve the alttestament union Psalms in the art and include the phenomenon of the so-called "mood swing". According to Gregory Etzelmuller the Israelite religion transformed already in pre-exilic time, more and more away from the institutional priests or prophets survey towards the opening up of the will of God through the Scriptures. The term "mood swing" is mainly connects the moment of the new, the reversal of has gone before. Psalm 13 is an individual prayer, has exemplary or paradigmatic character. There is no (direct) discharge an individual biographical experience, but on the contrary a prayer form that must be refilled by its individual Nachbetern depending biographical. The emergency prayer underlying consists primarily in the experience of the absence of God in the life of the region (after) praying. The original text of the chapter is in French. Keywords: Psalms 13; mood swing; individual prayer; Israelite religion; Scriptures

Zum Sogenannten "Stimmungsumschwung" in Psalm 13

Examining the arrangement of biographical notices in the titles of psalms ascribed to David reveals that these are not placed haphazardly. Their order and correlation conveys a message to the reader of the first two Davidic collections of psalms. There are two main horizons, one reflecting on the conflict between Saul and David (Pss 34; 52-59, followed by Ps 60 with national enemies), another reflecting on the conflict between David and Absalom (Ps 3-7; 63). The headings of Pss 18 (doubling 2 Sam 22) and Ps 51 (in connection with Ps 2 and 72) are of special hermeneutical significance, as they guide the reader’s understanding of such biographical information, signalling relationships between the headings of different psalms als well as back to the narrative of the Book of Samuel (1-2 Sam). In the midst of prayers in which David is struggling with enemies, Ps 18 foregrounds the salvation of JHWH “at the end.” Pss 2; 51 and 72 are interconnected by the common theme of the house of David and the prophetic voice of Nathan adressed twice to king David (2 Sam 7; 12).

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Beat Weber

Papers

Psalm 1 als Tor zur Tora JHWHs. Wie Ps 1 (und Ps 2) den Psalter an den Pentateuch anschliesst

Die Buchouvertüre Psalm 1-3 und ihre Bedeutung für das Verständnis des Psalters

Psalm 1 and its function as a directive into the Psalter and towards a Biblical Theology

Zum Sogenannten "Stimmungsumschwung" in Psalm 13

„An dem Tag, als JHWH ihn rettete aus der Hand aller seiner Feinde und aus der Hand Sauls“ (Ps 18,1)