Listening In: A Multicultural Reading of the Psalms

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: December 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Listening In: A Multicultural Reading of the Psalms. By Stephen Breck Reid. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997, $9.95 paper.

In this book Reid has focused attention on 42 psalms that he has arranged in three groups, all of which deal with what he calls the "self." As he puts it, "This book ... proclaims that the understandings of the self one encounters in the Psalter reveal a theological anthropology, one in which the doctrine of God is essential to the task of understanding what humanity is" (p. 103). Though he is in conversation with recent historical, critical, literary and rhetorical study ...

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