Psalmstudien Kolometrie, Strophik und Theologie ausgewählter Psalmen - Loretz, Oswald 1928-2014 (Walter de Gruyter, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Main description: In diesem Band werden detaillierte Kommentierungen der Psalmen 1-3, 6, 11, 13, 72, 81, 82, 88, 127, 137 und 149 sowie Einzelabhandlungen zur Problematik der Zitat-Vernetzung zwischen Ugarit-Texten und Psalmen und zur Politischen Theologie des Königtums vorgelegt. Dabei werden neue Erkenntnisse der Altorientalistik und Ugaritologie für die poetische, philologische und theologische Interpretation der Psalmen fruchtbar gemacht
Main description: This volume presents detailed commentary on Psalms 1-3, 6, 11, 13, 72, 81, 82, 88, 127, 137, and 149 as well as separate essays on the issue of the citations interlinking Ugaritic texts and psalms and on the political theology of monarchy. New insights from Ugaritology and the study of ancient Oriental civilizations and cultures are brought to bear on the poetic, philological, and theological interpretation of the Psalms
Review text: "Loretz's collection of psalm studies, like his earlier published work, offers very rich insights into the art of poetry, the religio-historical background of the psalms, and literary developments in textual transmissons. For more than three decades he has followed his own path of research, much to the benfit of all those adhering to different methods of investiagation." Erhard S. Gerstenberger in: The Catholic Biblical Quartely 66/2004