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Hope at the end of the Psalms

  • David Reimer

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHope for the world from the Old Testament
Subtitle of host publicationEssays in honour of J. Gordon McConville on his 70th birthday
EditorsDavid Firth, Jamie Grant, Alison Lo
Place of PublicationWilmore, KY
PublisherGlossaHouse
Chapter14
Pages165-176
ISBN (Print)9781636631226
Publication statusPublished - 2025

Publication series

NameGlossaHouse festschrift series
Volume4

Keywords

  • Promise
  • Eschatology
  • Acrostics
  • Psalms
  • Hebrew Bible
  • Biblical Theology

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