Psalmody and Poetry in Old Testament Ethics

Professor Dirk J. Human is Head of Biblical and Religious Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsList of Contributors Part I - Introduction1. Eckart Otto (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany)"Hebrew Ethics in Old Testament Scholarship"2. Jaco W Gericke (Northwest University, Vaal Triangle Campus, RSA)"What is Good? Meta-Ethical Assumptions in the Psalms Concerning the Relation between Divinity and Morality" Part II - Psalmody 3. Alphonso Groenewald (University of Pretoria, RSA)"The Ethical "Way" of Psalm 16" 4. Phil J Botha (University of Pretoria, RSA)"Psalm 34 and the Ethics of the Editors of the Psalter" 5. Theodor Seidl (University of Wurzburg, Germany; Research Associate, University of Pretoria)"Who Stands Behind the raµa<< in Psalm 50:16a? The Ethical Testimony of Psalm 50:16-22" 6.Andrew Mein (Westcott House, Cambridge, UK)"The King's Justice? Early Modern Perspectives on the Ethics of Psalm 72" 7. Johan Coetzee (University of Johannesburg, RSA)"Bodily Interpretation of Psalm 104: "Yahweh's History" and Human Ethics" 8. Liswaniso Kamuwanga (University of Pretoria, RSA)"Ethics and Justice in an African Society"9. Emannuel O Usue (University of Pretoria and Benue State University Makurdi, igeria)"Ethical and Theological Parallels Between Biblical Psalms and The NKST Indigenous Christian Songs" 10. Samuel Ndoga (Baptist Theological College, Johannesburg, RSA)"Psalm 133 as a Response to Xenophobic Attitudes in South Africa Today" Part III - Poetry in Pentateuch and Prophets 11. Eckart Otto (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany)"Singing Moses: His Farewell Song in Deuteronomy 32"12. Willie Wessels (University of South Africa, Pretoria, RSA)"Prophet and Ethics: a Study of Jeremiah 5:26-29" Index of ReferencesIndex of Authors

Psalmody and Poetry in Old Testament Ethics is the result of a 2008 Project Psalms seminar at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, an international interdisciplinary working group bringing together psalms and poetic texts scholars. Per the title, the theme around which this volume’s contributions cluster is ethics. Attentive to the historical and sociologically formed worlds behind the text and aware of the place of the reader, this volume seeks to further the scholarly understanding of an ethics of the ancient Hebrew mind as well as contextualize contemporary African ethical issues.