Product Details
- Cover Type:
- 880 Pages
- Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
- Publication Date: September 2014
- ISBN: SDECLANABOOKOFPSALMS9780802824936
The Book of Psalms (NICOT)
This work by Nancy deClaiss -Walford, Rolf Jacobson, and Beth Tanner is the most complete and detailed one-volume commentary available on the Psalms. Significantly, the volume reflects the combined insights of three superior (younger) biblical scholars.DeClaiss -Walford, Jacobson, and Tanner offer a succinct introduction to the Psalter, a new translation of all the psalms that takes special account of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and individual entries on each psalm unit. Throughout the book they draw on state-of-theart research on the canonical shape and shaping of the Psalter and evidence a nuanced attention to the poetic nature of the psalms."
About the Authors
Beth LaNeel Tanner is the Kansfield Professor of Old Testament Studies at New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Jersey.
Rolf A. Jacobson is associate professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford is Carolyn Ward Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages at McAfee School of Theology, Atlanta, Georgia.
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“The commentary will be very helpful to students, scholars, and especially pastors. It contains a trove of valuable insights that bring the Psalms into conversation with the modern reader and with the life and worship of the church.”
Word & World
“DeClaiss-Walford, Jacobson, and Tanner represent the best and the brightest of a new generation of Psalms scholars. . . . Their creative collaboration has produced a very impressive volume that will certainly be both a scholarly standard and a wonderful resource for leaders in the faith communities that treasure the Psalms as Scripture.”
J. Clinton McCann Jr.
Eden Theological Seminary
“Excellent. . . . A very valuable exposition of the Psalter for students, teachers, pastors, and all people interested in the biblical psalms.”
Erhard Gerstenberger
Marburg University
“From careful text-critical and philological analysis to thoughtful theological and pastoral reflections, the authors have created a most useful commentary on the Psalms. While valuable to scholars, these interpretations will be especially helpful to pastors in their teaching and preaching ministry. The multiple authorial voices further enhance the interpretive richness of the volume.”
Patrick D. Miller
Princeton Theological Seminary
“Nancy deClaiss-Walford, Rolf Jacobson, and Beth Tanner have given us all a considerable gift in this fresh reading of the book of Psalms. . . . Their new translation of the psalms and the attached notes as well as attention to recent scholarship provide a treasure trove of insights. Ministers, students, and scholars alike will be warmly repaid by time spent with this volume.”
W. H. Bellinger Jr.
Baylor University
“How excellent that these three scholars have written this commentary! How admirable that they have managed to cover so much ground and deal with so many detailed points concerning text and language, all within the confines of one volume!”
John Goldingay
Fuller Theological Seminary
Product Description
This work by Nancy deClaiss -Walford, Rolf Jacobson, and Beth Tanner is the most complete and detailed one-volume commentary available on the Psalms. Significantly, the volume reflects the combined insights of three superior (younger) biblical scholars.DeClaiss -Walford, Jacobson, and Tanner offer a succinct introduction to the Psalter, a new translation of all the psalms that takes special account of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and individual entries on each psalm unit. Throughout the book they draw on state-of-theart research on the canonical shape and shaping of the Psalter and evidence a nuanced attention to the poetic nature of the psalms."
About The Author
Product Details
- Cover Type:
- 880 Pages
- Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
- Publication Date: September 2014
- ISBN: SDECLANABOOKOFPSALMS9780802824936