{"product_id":"9789042946446","title":"The Psalter. PS 1-41 (Rhetorica Biblica Et Semitica)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike the fifth book, the first book does not merely juxtapose isolated \n\u003cbr\u003e prayers; the forty-one psalms constituting it form a highly elaborate \n\u003cbr\u003e architecture, in accordance with the principle of self-similarity of \n\u003cbr\u003e fractals, or following the procedure of mise en abyme. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e The book is organised as its second section and even more as the third \n\u003cbr\u003e one. The first side of each of these two sections features the king's \n\u003cbr\u003e enemies whose sin consists in persecuting him \"without reason\", with the \n\u003cbr\u003e psalmist claiming his innocence and faithfulness to the Law. Then the \n\u003cbr\u003e centre of these sections switches to the second side, where the psalmist \n\u003cbr\u003e becomes aware of his own sinfulness and inability to keep the Law; he \n\u003cbr\u003e needs to be \"instructed\" in the \"ways\" of God, who will forgive him his \n\u003cbr\u003e sins and imprint his Law \"in his heart\". It therefore acts as a \n\u003cbr\u003e transition from the first covenant, the Mosaic covenant of Sinai, to the \n\u003cbr\u003e new covenant, the one announced by the exilic prophets, which is based \n\u003cbr\u003e on the forgiveness of sins, on the inner knowledge of the law and on the \n\u003cbr\u003e universality of salvation that will attain all nations. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e This same shift can be seen throughout the book. Its first section (Ps \n\u003cbr\u003e 1-18) entirely occupied by the threat posed to the psalmist by his \n\u003cbr\u003e sinful enemies, while the next two sections (Ps 19-25 and 26-41) make \n\u003cbr\u003e the transition from the old covenant to the new one. A similar \n\u003cbr\u003e changeover was already taking place in the central subsection of the \n\u003cbr\u003e second section (Ps 20-24) and in the third section (Ps 32-37), always in \n\u003cbr\u003e the same direction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peeters Pub \u0026 Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49819385495800,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":184.08,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9789042946446-1.jpg?v=1783807963","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9789042946446","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}