Diachronic and Synchronic: Reading the Psalms in Real Time

In this volume growing out of the Baylor Symposium on the Book of Psalms (May 18-20, 2006), some of the leading figures and emerging names in Psalms scholarship offer a collection of essays modeling the diversity of scholarly methodological approaches that characterize the reading of the Book of Psalms at the beginning of the Twenty-First Century.

Based on Baylor University Symposium on the Psalms, this work exposes readers to the variety of approaches as practiced by leading scholars in the field.This volume is the result of a symposium held at Baylor University in May of 2006, entitled "Baylor University Symposium on the Psalms." The participants were carefully selected to represent the diversity of approaches currently employed in the study of the Psalter. Although a number of volumes in print offer the reader introductory information related to the Psalter, perhaps even noting various methodological approaches, very few actually "model" the diversity of such approaches. This volume exposes readers to the variety of approaches as practiced by leading scholars in the field.