{"product_id":"the-conflict-between-faith-and-experience-and-the-shape-of-psalms-73-83-paperback","title":"The Conflict Between Faith and Experience, and the Shape of Psalms 73-83 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen J. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLaura Quick\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJacqueline Vayntrub\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen J. Smith enters the lively field of editorial-criticism of the Hebrew Psalter or \u003ci\u003ePsalterexegese\u003c\/i\u003e with this detailed investigation into the final form of Psalms 73-83. In the book, he engages scholarly disagreements over this collection's structure, the degree and nature of its literary unity, and the primary theological message(s) it communicates. Smith argues that the sequence of Psalms 73-82 - and possibly 83 - has a deliberate design that reflects a sustained focus on addressing, and resolving, a multidimensional collision between \"faith\" (i.e., core Israelite beliefs about God) and \"experience\" (i.e., the individual\/community's lived experience of God) that was precipitated by God's prolonged absence in the Temple's destruction (c. 586\/587 BCE). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eParting ways with previous scholarship, Smith contends that a recursive organizing principle rooted in biblical parallelism structures the collection. Over the book's nine chapters, he makes the case that the editor(s) grouped its psalms into two major blocks (74-78; 79-82) of two sub-groupings each (74-76, 77-78; 79\/82, 80-81) in order to develop a \u003ci\u003esingle\u003c\/i\u003e topic in multiple dimensions: the severe threat that God's prolonged absence in the temple's destruction posed to the ongoing viability of various core Israelite beliefs about God, most fundamentally God's goodness. Smith makes the case that the collection is shaped to \u003ci\u003eresolve\u003c\/i\u003e this crisis by bolstering the reader's confidence in, and commitment to, these beliefs in the face of their apparent failure.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen J. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Ministries at Belhaven University, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 25, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773787799840,"sku":"9780567702760","price":73.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b65ae375eb4c097a56937d635bd01124_085a80db-c1c3-4b38-bc99-94e8418602cc.webp?v=1780432805","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-conflict-between-faith-and-experience-and-the-shape-of-psalms-73-83-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}