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167 p. Hardcover.

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In very good condition. Paper slightly discolored. - PREFACE - The following monograph is mainly concerned with two well-known groups of psalms, (i) the hymns which celebrate the Kingship of Yahweh, and (ii) the so-called royal psalms. Accordingly it may be regarded as one more illustration of the influence which Hermann Gunkel has exercised in the field of Old Testament study by his Classification of the psalms according to their literary types and his stress upon the value of discovering, so far as possible, their original Sitz im Leben. By his wide application of the principles of Formgeschichte Gunkel has provided students of the Old Testament with an approach to their subject which, in my opinion, seems likely to lead in varying degrees beyond the simple correlation of obviously related types of literature to ideological syntheses which should enable us to recover more than one lost aspect of the religious thought and practice of ancient Israel. For this reason I have to add that the monograph also owes much to the emphasis which has been laid by Sigmund Mowinckel on the original cultic setting of so many of the psalms, although my conclusions are in many ways markedly different from his; and it is a pleasure to record here again in the preface, as I have already done in the body of the book,1 my deep sense of indebtedness to this distinguished scholar, whose influence upon the course of Old Testament study during the last forty years has been so profound.