Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The message of the psalter: an eschatological programme in the book of psalms, paperback/david c. mitchell

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The idea of a messianic meta-narrative in the Book of Psalms is now widely accepted.

But this is the book which, in 1997, established the hermeneutical rationale for such a view.

It proposes that the Psalter has been redacted to reflect a programme of eschatological events like that of Zechariah 9-14.

These events include the ingathering of exiled Israel by a bridegroom-king; his establishment of a kingdom, followed by his violent death; the scattering of Israel in the wilderness, and their subsequent regathering and further imperilment; their rescue by a king from the heavens, who establishes his kingdom from Zion, brings peace and prosperity to the earth and receives the homage of the nations.

There is an appendix of apocalyptic midrashim, some translated into English for the first time.

About the Author: David Mitchell is a biblical scholar, musicologist, and musical director.

Originally from Scotland, he now lives in Brussels where he is Precentor and Director of Music in Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral.

His writings centre around the mysterious Book of Psalms.

The Message of the Psalter (1997) proposes that the Book of Psalms is redacted to reflect an eschatological timetable similar to Zechariah 9-14.

The Songs of Ascents: Psalms 120-134 in the Worship of the Jerusalem Temple (2015) traces the Songs of Ascents as liturgy from the day of their first performance on 15 Ethanim 959 BC to the last days of the second temple, and provides a reconstruction of their original music, based on the Masoretic cantillation.

Messiah ben Joseph (2016) is the first ever full-length study of the slain messiah of rabbinic Judaism, a figure which first appears in the Pentateuch and in the Psalms.

For more information on Mitchell's work, go to www.

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