Psalms and Liturgy

Professor Dirk Human is Head of Biblical and Religious Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Cas J.A. Vos is the Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria. He has published numerous books and articles and won the Andrew Murray Prize for Theology (1999). He is the President of the Societas Homiletica.

• Waiting for meaning - Psalms in cult and culture. Marcel Barnard; Psalter and Messiah. Towards a Christological understanding of the Psalms in the Old Testament and the Church Fathers. Georg P. Braulik; "Sticks and Stones": Words with teeth in Psalm 7. Brian Doyle; Cult-critical motif in Psalm 69:32 - Does it portray an anti-cultic stance? Alphonso Groenewald; Psalm 136: A liturgy with reference to creation and history. Dirk J. Human; Praise of God and knowledge of man. Jorg Jeremias; Revisiting the Psalm headings: Second Temple Levitical propaganda? Louis C. Jonker; Augustine, Gadamer and the Psalms (or: The Psalms as answer to a question). Jurie H. le Roux; The Judean legitimization of royal rulers in its Ancient Near Eastern contexts. Eckhart Otto; Paschal Liturgy and Psalmody in Jerusalem 380-384 CE.: Some observations and implications. Niek A. Schuman; Psalm 32: Structure, genre, intent and liturgical use Stephanus D. Snyman; Traces of liturgies in the Psalter: The communal laments, Psalms 79, 80, 83, 89 in context Hans-Ulrich Steymans; Spatiality in Psalm 29. Pieter M. Venter; The theopoetical and liturgical patterns of the Psalms with reference to Psalm 19. Cas J. A. Vos

"This is a nice collection of contributions on the Psalms and liturgy....Schuman shows his stengths as a Psalm scholar and a researcher of early liturgy."- Kristin De Troyer, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 33 No. 1 January 2007