Notes for Introduction

1. Ronald B. Allen, Praise! A Matter of Life and Breath (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1980) 17.

2. James Limburg, "Psalms, Book of," Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed by D. N. Freedman (New York: Doubleday, 1992) 5.522.

3. Cited in Robert Davidson, The Vitality of Worship (Edinburgh: Handsel Press, 1998) 2.

4. William Holladay, The Psalms through Three Thousand Years: Prayerbook of a Cloud of Witnesses (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993).

5. Robert Davidson, The Vitality of Worship (Edinburgh: Handsel Press, 1998) 1-2.

6. David Wallace, "The Use of Psalms in the Shaping of a Text: Psalm 2:7 and Psalm 110:1 in Hebrews 1," Restoration Quarterly 45; Henry Shires, Finding the Old Testament in the New (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1974), 126.

7. H. J. Kraus, Theology of the Psalms (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1986), 194.

8. James Luther Mays, "The God Who Reigns: The Book of Psalms," in The Forgotten God: Perspectives in Biblical Theology ed. A. Andrew Das & Frank J. Matera (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002) 29f.