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Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 364-383, June 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay examines the use of psalm structures, rhetoric, and poetics in the devotional poetry of Hester Pulter, a mid‐seventeenth‐century Royalist manuscript poet. Scholarship has shown the adaptability of the voice of the psalms, how it is amendable to both an ‘I’ and a ‘we’ simultaneously.
Nikolina Hatton
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue S1, Page 167-189, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The remains of Amani, a century‐old scientific laboratory in Tanzania, are quintessential modern relics. When anthropologists turn to such infrastructures of, originally colonial, knowledge‐making, their own implication with the object of their study – and with its epistemological and political‐economic origins and order – becomes part of the ...
P. Wenzel Geissler
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'n Perspektief op die nuwe Psalmomdigting
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2000 A perspective on the new versification of the Psalter in Afrikaans. The envisaged versificaion of all 150 psalms in Afrikaans has been completed. The aricle focuses on the following aspects: the Psalter as a song book; the Psalter as a poetry book; the ...
C. A.J. Vos
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Jan Kochanowski’s Psalter – a Source of Polish Poetry and Mirror of the Human Mind
The Biblical Annals, 2023 The article deals with Jan Kochanowski’s Psałterz Dawidów [David’s Psalter], published in 1579. This paraphrase of the biblical Psalter, intensely lyrical in its spirit, was inspired by George Buchanan’s Latin poetic paraphrase of the Psalms, which is ...
Elwira Buszewicz
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Transferring Jerusalem to Moscow: Maksim Grek’s Letter and Its Afterlife
The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 248-262, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Few debates in late seventeenth‐century Muscovy were as heated as the controversy over the naming of the Resurrection “New Jerusalem” Monastery (1656). This essay draws attention to an overlooked sixteenth‐century source, a letter by the Greek‐born Slavic translator Maksim Grek (d.
Justin Willson, Ashley Morse
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Het Psalter als meerstemmige Thora
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 Psalm 1 is generally called the ‘introduction’ to the whole Psalter. At the same time this Psalm is defined as ‘Torah Psalm’ in a narrow sense. By this definition only a few psalms in the Psalter are really Torah Psalms.
Kees Waaijman
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 95-121, February 2023., 2023 This article examines the meaning and function of the Old English noun reaflac in two tenth‐century lawsuit documents, Sawyer 877 and Sawyer 1211. It suggests that reaflac was the vernacular counterpart to the Latin terms violentia and rapina. Such connected terminology suggests that a collection of now lost tenth‐century Old English charters, like S ...
Brittany Hanlon
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Dekoracje irlandzkich psałterzy
Vox Patrum, 2013 A particularly interesting question in medieval Irish literature, is decorating Psalters. Since the Biblical psalms were very popular among the Anglo-Saxons, they were often copied and decorated also in Ireland.
Ryszarda Maria Bulas
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 57-74, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This article widens the focus of the debate around multilingualism in early modern Europe. Using the life‐writing of a scholar, traveller and Protestant minister from the Scottish Highlands, Rev. James Fraser (1634–1709), it provides a North Sea perspective on the theme. The article sheds light on how Fraser and his locale (the ‘firthlands’ of
David Worthington
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 380-401, July 2022., 2022 Abstract This article probes the question of whether or not the so‐called imprecatory Psalms may be prayed either in private settings or churches. In his Finkenwalde sermon on Psalm 58, Dietrich Bonhoeffer considers them ‘the prayer[s] of the innocent’. This article examines Bonhoeffer’s understanding and handling of the imprecatory Psalms, which leads
Nadine Hamilton
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