Description: This one-volume commentary is a useful guide for students and scholars that illuminates the grammar and nuances of the Hebrew text and offers wide-ranging insights into the role of genre. Geller shows how the religion of the Psalms marks a transitional era between pre-exilic Israelite and Judean religions and the formation of Second Temple Judaism.
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Stephen A. Geller is the Irma Cameron Milstein Professor Emeritus in Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Geller holds a PhD from Harvard University (1976); he received rabbinical ordination from JTS in 1965 and also studied at Cornell University, Heidelberg University, and Columbia University. He has published numerous books and articles on biblical language, poetry, literature, and religion, including Sacred Enigmas: Literary Religion in the Hebrew Bible (Routledge, 1996).