B415A Psalms (2 Credits)
Lecturer: Henry NG
Description:
Introduction to the Psalms
1.1 Title
1.2 I-Thou relationship between God and Man
1.3 The unity of the Psalms
1.4 A promised response to the Torah
Method of Exegesis
2.1 The parallelism of biblical poetry
2.2 Its history
2.3 A response to the promise life
2.4 In the recognition of the primitive church
2.5 Delimitation
Exegesis of some Psalms selected from the Divine Office
Reference:
ALONSO SCHOKEL L., A Manual of the Hebrew Poetics. (Rome: Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1988)
KUGEL J. L., The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and its History. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981)
MANNS F., Jewish prayer in the time of Jesus, SBF A22. (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1994)
GEORGE A.著,房志榮譯,《絕妙禱辭:聖詠》,輔大神學叢書9。台北:光啟,1976。
韓承良著,《聖詠釋義》。香港:思高聖經學會,1988,再版。
Note:
Not offered this year.