Psalms Through the Centuries, Volume 1

Series Editors' Preface xi

Preface xiii

Works Cited xv

Introduction: Towards a Reception-History Commentary on the Psalms 1

1 The Eleventh Century BCE to the Fifth Century CE: Translation, Exposition, Instruction, Liturgy and the Prophetic Bias 5

Jewish Reception 5

From Composition to Compilation to Translation 5

Exposition: The Prophetic Bias 9

Instruction through Imitations of Psalms 11

Christian Reception 13

The Psalms as Prophecies in the New Testament 14

The Psalms as Prophecies in the Church Fathers 24

Alexandrian Commentators 28

Liturgical Adaptations of the Psalms 40

Christian Liturgy 40

Jewish Liturgy 43

Concluding Observations 46

2 The Fifth to Eleventh Centuries: Liturgy, Exposition, Artistic Representation 47

Christian Reception 47

Liturgy 47

Exposition, Homily, Translation 55

Artistic Representation 62

Jewish Reception 68

Liturgy 68

Translation, Exposition, Homily 71

Artistic Representation 75

Concluding Observations 75

3 The Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries: Learning and Discerning 77

Jewish and Christian Controversies through Exegetical Works 77

Preliminary Considerations 77

Jewish Commentators 82

Christian Commentators 87

Christian and Jewish Artists 95

Christian Illumination 95

Jewish Illumination 104

Christian and Jewish Didactic Works 113

Christian Writers 113

Jewish Writers 117

Christian and Jewish Liturgy 120

Christian Adaptations 120

Jewish Adaptations 123

Translation in Christian Tradition 123

Concluding Observations 130

4 The Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries: Democratization and Dissemination 131

Reception as Translation: Christian Responses 131

Commentary, Liturgy, Homily and Translation on the Continent 131

Liturgy, Homily and Translation in England and Scotland 146

Reception as Aesthetic Representation: Jewish and Christian Responses 163

Jewish Reception through Art and Music 163

Christian Reception through Art, Literary Imitation and Music 166

Concluding Observations 190

5 The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Secularization and Revitalization 192

Christian Responses 194

Exegetical Works 194

Devotional Works 203

Musical Reception 220

Reception through Liturgy 228

Translations of Psalmody 230

Jewish Responses 234

Reception as Translation and Liturgy 234

Reception as Homily and Exegesis 237

Aesthetic Responses 239

Concluding Observations 240

6 The Twentieth to Twenty-First Centuries: Pluralism and Ecumenism 242

Christian and Jewish Translations of Psalmody 246

Liturgy and Psalmody in Christian and Jewish Traditions 254

Exegetical Studies, Christian and Jewish 266

Devotional Works, Christian and Jewish 282

Aesthetic Responses, Christian and Jewish 290

Concluding Observations 307

Conclusion: From Introduction to Commentary 309

Glossary 313

References 322

Index of Psalms 351

Index of Names 361

Subject Index 368