Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Excellent 4.8 out of 5

Trustpilot

You now have 0 of this item in your basket

Meaning and Context in the Thanksgiving Hymns

Linguistic and Rhetorical Perspectives on a Collection of Prayers from Qumran [Hardback]

by Trine Bjornung Hasselbalch

Author
Trine Bjornung Hasselbalch
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
SBL Press
Published
March 2015

Bible Studies and Commentaries

Read full description

Click to expand

Today's Price

£42.15

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

Enter the product quantity

Meaning and Context in the Thanksgiving Hymns

Today's Price £42.15

Frequently Bought Together

Meaning and Context in the Thanksgiving Hymns

by Trine Bjornung Hasselbalch

Hardback

In the Shadow of the Temple

by Oskar Skarsaune

Paperback

Add both to basket for £64.40 and save £4.59

Product Description

Hasselbalch asserts that current theories about the social background of Thanksgiving Hymns are unable to explain its heterogeneous character. Instead the author suggests a reading strategy that leaves presumptions about the underlying social contexts aside to instead consider the collection's hybridity as a clue to understanding the collection as a whole. Hasselbalch applies Systemic Functional Linguistics to four Hodayot compositions which show signs of hybridity. Analysis reveals that the speaker in some of the so-called leader hymns as well as in compositions not normally designated leader hymns appears to have the role of a mediator in the agency of God-a feature that distinguishes the hodayot from biblical psalms. This characteristic can be seen as a common denominator that unifies the collection.