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In this study, David Willgren attempts to provide answers to two fundamental questions in relation to the formation of the `Bookż of Psalms: "how?" and "why?". The first relates to the diachronic growth of the collection (how are these processes to be reconstructed, and on what grounds?), while the second relates to questions of purpose (to what end are psalms being juxtaposed in a collection?). By conceptualizing the `Bookż of Psalms as an anthology, and by inquiring into its poetics by means of paratextuality, David Willgren provides a fresh reconstruction of the formation of the `Bookż of Psalms and concludes, in contrast to the canonical approach, that it does not primarily provide a literary context for individual psalms. Rather, it preserves a dynamic selection of psalms that is best seen not as a book of psalms, but as a canon of psalms.

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• Full title: Formation of the 'Book' of Psalms
• Subtitle: Reconsidering the Transmission and Canonization of Psalmody in Light of Material Culture and the Poetics of Anthologies
• Author: David Willgren
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 508
• EAN: 9783161547874
• ISBN: 316154787X
• ID: 14265654
• Publisher: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
• Weight: 766 g
• Dimensions: 158 × 237 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2016

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