Books in the Studies in Scripture and Bibli series

The suffering and vindicated kingThe Psalter evinces meaningful arrangement. When psalms are read with attentiveness to their textual context, striking connections emerge. In The Arrival of the King: The Shape and Story of Psalms 15-24, Carissa Quinn approaches these psalms as a compositional unity. When read as a unit, Psalms 15-24 tell the story of God's kingdom, established through the suffering and deliverance of his Davidic king.Quinn interprets Psalms 15-24 as a sequence and a chiasm, revealing provocative links in adjacent and parallel psalms. These psalms have a sense of progress, beginning with the question of who may ascend the holy hill and culminating in the divine king's own ascent. They also display recursion, as themes in one psalm are developed in its chiastic parallel. At the peak of the chiasm is Psalm 19, where the king praises God's creation and Torah and prays for righteousness.The Arrival of the King establishes and explores the rewards of approaching the Psalms as a carefully arranged literary work.

The fresh riches of biblical poetry for communities of faithA New Song includes nine essays on the hidden intricacies of poetry in the Hebrew Bible, ten poems in dialogue with biblical poetry, and three reflective responses.On Reading Genesis 49: How Hebrew Poetry Communicates Then and Now (John Goldingay)Shirat Ha-Yam (the Song of the Sea) in Jewish and Christian Liturgical Tradition (C.T.R. Hayward)Hannah's Prayer (1 Samuel 2:1-10): On the Interface of Poetics and Ethics in an Embedded Poem (David G. Firth)Bending the Silence: Reading Psalms through the Arts (Ellen F. Davis)Psalms "Translated" for Life in the 21st Century - A South African perspective (June F. Dickie)Prosody and Preaching: Poetic Form and Religious Function in Biblical Verse (Benjamin D. Sommer)"With Fists Flailing at the Gates of Heaven" Wrestling with Psalm 88, A Psalm for Chronic Illness (Shai Held)Truth and Hidden Things: Reading Isaiah 45:9-25 as Scripture (Katie M. Heffelfinger)The Dynamic Relationship between God and Man in the Book of Hosea: A Dynamic - Synchronic Reading (Yisca Zimran)Poems by Maria Apichella, Kilby Austin, Edward Clarke, Jacqueline Osherow, Micheal O'Siadhail, Richard G. Rohlfing Jr., and Jock Stein.Edited by Stephen D. Campbell, Richard G. Rohlfing Jr., and Richard S. Briggs, A New Song brings together a diverse roster of Jewish and Christian scholars to explore biblical Hebrew poetic texts within the context--and for the benefit--of communities of faith. These thoughtful essays and poems encourage readers to join in the singing of the old songs anew.