TY - BOOK ID - 10578631 TI - Reading the Psalms as a book PY - 1996 VL - 222 SN - 1850756228 1850757976 9781850757979 PB - Sheffield: Sheffield academic press, DB - UniCat KW - 223.3 KW - Psalmen KW - Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Bible. O.T. Psalms -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Bible. O.T. Psalms. KW - Judaism KW - Religion KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Biblos Psalmon (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Buch der Preisungen (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Liber Psalmorum (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Mazāmīr (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Preisungen (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Psalmen (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Psalmoi (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Psalms (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Psalms of David (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Psaumes (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Pseaumes de Dauid (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Salmenes bok (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Salmos (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Shihen (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Sifr al-Mazāmīr (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Soltar (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Tehilim (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Tehillim (Book of the Old Testament) KW - תהלים (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Zsoltárkönyv (Book of the Old Testament) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10578631 AB - This book discusses the theory that the Psalter was compiled with the specific intention that it should be used as a book for private spiritual reading. It is argued that if this were so, the work of the final editors would not have been confined to arranging the psalms in a particular order but would have included additions and interpolations intended to give the whole book a new orientation. An investigation of selected psalms shows that although the Psalter may have become a book for private devotion not long after its compilation, there is little evidence that it was compiled for that purp ER -