{"title":"Psalm 85","authors":"David Lewicki","doi":"10.1177/00209643231222909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00209643231222909","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511901,"journal":{"name":"Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"37 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140797239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Voice of Our Sister to the Frenemy among Us: Psalm 55","authors":"Stephen Breck Reid","doi":"10.1177/00209643231224476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00209643231224476","url":null,"abstract":"The violence and discord of contemporary experience find resonance in Psalm 55. Awareness of multiple voices in the psalm reveals nuances in the rhetoric of violence and discord as microaggressions and acts of more explicit violence and abuse, including murder. Psalm 55 includes the language of taunt and insolence, what we sometimes refer to in contemporary parlance as gaslighting. The language of the sword represents not only war but intimate violence and abuse. The careful reader of Psalm 55 finds multiple voices in the ancient past that prefigure and amplify multiple voices in the conflicted present.","PeriodicalId":511901,"journal":{"name":"Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"452 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140791237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Black Hole at the Center of the Psalms","authors":"Brent A. Strawn","doi":"10.1177/00209643231222618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00209643231222618","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the motif of \"the Pit\" as a third, thematic focus for the Psalter (alongside \"refuge\" and \"pathway\"). Especially as it comes to fullest expression in Psalm 88, the Pit can be seen as the \"black hole\" at the center of the Psalms. Yet, while powerful, Psalm 88, and the presence of the Pit therein, does not have the final word. The sequence of the following psalms (Psalms 89, 90, and 91) slowly but surely draws the poet of Psalm 88 out of what has been called the saddest of all psalms. In this way, Psalm 88 retains its witness within the Psalter, but it is also not alone within the Psalms. Astrophysics has determined that black holes are not only destructive; they are also generative, shaping things around them and producing massive amounts of energy. In this light, the Pit, too, can be viewed as a generative theme for the Psalms, one that is crucial—somehow even central—but, in the end, transcended.","PeriodicalId":511901,"journal":{"name":"Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"606 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140779999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Invitation to Biblical Poetry","authors":"Brent A. Strawn","doi":"10.1177/00209643231222638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00209643231222638","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511901,"journal":{"name":"Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"63 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140779276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading the Psalms Theologically","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00209643231222636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00209643231222636","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511901,"journal":{"name":"Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"302 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140775347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Happy Are All Who Take Refuge in Him”: The Theological Shape of the Psalter","authors":"J. Creach","doi":"10.1177/00209643231222910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00209643231222910","url":null,"abstract":"By reading the Psalms in its entirety as a book (also called the Psalter) rather than focusing on individual psalms or sections, a primary theological claim becomes clear: the Lord alone reigns over the cosmos and therefore is the only reliable source of refuge. The essay also explores the role of David in the formation of the Psalter and the ancient view of David as a prophet that grows out of the structure and content of the Psalter. David, along with Moses, is the primary voice that urges hearers and readers to take refuge in the Lord alone (Pss 2:12; 37:39-40; 146:3-4).","PeriodicalId":511901,"journal":{"name":"Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"71 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140794343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Let My People Live: An Africana Reading of Exodus","authors":"Safwat Marzouk","doi":"10.1177/00209643231222639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00209643231222639","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511901,"journal":{"name":"Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"226 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140781474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psalm 49","authors":"Almond Ka Kwan Sin","doi":"10.1177/00209643231224473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00209643231224473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":511901,"journal":{"name":"Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"121 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140770370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Coltrane's Wisdom Psalm: A Love Supreme (1965)","authors":"Joel M. LeMon","doi":"10.1177/00209643231222911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00209643231222911","url":null,"abstract":"John Coltrane's classic recording, \"A Love Supreme\" (1965) has only one line of lyrics, namely, \"A love supreme,\" which appears at the end of the first part of his four-part jazz suite. To be sure, these words are not a direct quotation of any biblical text. Nevertheless, this study treats the album as an expression of the musical reception history of the Bible. The essay provides a musical analysis of the album's four parts, entitled \"Acknowledgement,\" \"Resolution,\" \"Pursuance,\" and \"Psalm,\" alongside a textual analysis of the liner notes. The analysis shows how Coltrane's work reflects the tradition of sapiential psalmody. This album reveals numerous similarities in form, texture, and theme with the wisdom psalms, especially Psalm 119, the psalm supreme.","PeriodicalId":511901,"journal":{"name":"Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology","volume":"131 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140793313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}