Hope at the End of the Psalms

David Reimer

Hope at the End of the Psalms

David Reimer

School of Divinity

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Abstract

Analyses of the book of Psalms in recent years have detected not only editorial shaping to the book, but an eschatological trajectory as the collection unfolds. This essay critically assesses those accounts, and seeks to test them through an examination of “hope” in the Psalms. Judging by key lexemes, there is a clustering towards Book V, with key nodal points in Pss 119, 130, and 146-147. Exegetical examination of these key texts contributes not only to an appreciation of the “canonical shape” of the Psalter, but brings into the foreground the nature of hope for these psalmists.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Hope for the World from the Old Testament
Subtitle of host publication	Essays in Honour of J. Gordon McConville on His 70th Birthday
Editors	David Firth, Jamie Grant, Alison Lo
Place of Publication	Wilmore, KY
Publisher	GlossaHouse
Chapter	14
Pages	165-176
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9781636631226
Publication status	Published - 2025

Keywords

promise
eschatology
acrostics
Psalms
Hebrew Bible
Biblical Theology

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