Sing Unto God A New Song

Download or read book Sing Unto God a New Song written by Herbert J. Levine and published by . This book was released on 1995-03-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levine, a graduate fellow at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, explores the Psalms as dialogic speech acts shaped by the conventions of human speech communication and by the particular religious symbolism and discourse traditions of the Bible and the ancient Near East. He draws on critical perspectives such as the anthropology of ritual, speech-act theory, midrashic hermeneutics, and post-Holocaust theology, to reveal the functions of the Psalms in the ancient and the modern world, and the attitudes and roles of the original psalmists. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR