Portraits of the Righteous in the Psalms: An Exploration of the Ethics of Book I

by Daniel C. Owens

What have the Psalms to do with ethics? Readers prize the Psalter for its richly theological prayers, but into these prayers are woven a variety of ethical issues. This book explores the ethics of the Psalter by examining the four portraits of the righteous person that punctuate Book I. It begins by studying these psalms as individual compositions and then employs both the canonical approach and dialogic criticism to identify the complex relationship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620329689
• ISBN13: 9781620329689
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"