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Songs of Ascents (Psalms 120-134): Their Place in Israelite History and Religion
Loren D. Crow, Loren Crow
ISBN
9780788502187
Volume
SBLDS 148
Status
Not yet published
Price
$34.95
Publication Date
January 1997
Hardback

$34.95

This work is the first book-length exegetical treatment of the collection “Songs of Ascents” (Psalms 120–134) published since 1978 (Seybold). The author proposes that the Songs consist of two redactional layers: a nucleus that comes from a north-Israelite, agrarian provenance, and a Jerusalemite redactional layer that deliberately gives the “nuclear” songs a new purpose, namely, to persuade northern Israelites of the Persian period to make pilgrimage to the Jerusalem temple. Among other contributions, the work adds to the corpus of psalms identified as northern and engages several methodological issues associated with the identification of a psalm’s provenance.