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Select Bibliography on the Psalms
The Editors

Jewish Approaches:
Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Poetry, Basic Books, 1985.
William G. Braude, trans. The Midrash on Psalms (Midrash Tehillim), Yale University Press, 1959.
A. Cohen, ed. The Psalms: Hebrew Text, English Translation and Commentary, The Soncino Press, 1945.
Solomon Freehof, The Book of Psalms, a Commentary, Union of American Hebrew Congregations (U.A.H.C.) 1938.
Jonathan Magonet, A Rabbi Reads the Psalms, SCM Press, 1994.
Nahum M. Sarna, On the Book of Psalms: Exploring the Prayers of Ancient Israel, Schocken Books, 1993.

Other Approaches:
Bernard W. Anderson, Out of the Depths: The Psalms Speak for us Today, (revised and expanded) Westminster John Knox Press, 1983.
Walter Brueggmann, Israel's Praise. Doxology against Idolatry and Ideology, Fortress Press, 1988.
John H. Eaton, Kingship and the Psalms, SCM Press, 1976.
Michael D. Goulder, The Psalms of the Sons of Korah: Studies in the Psalter I, JSOT Suppl. Series 20.
The Prayers of David: Ps.51-72, Studies in the Psalter II, JSOT Suppl. Series 102.
Martin Israel, A Light on the Path, Darton, Longman & Todd, 1990.
Raymond Jacques Tournay, Seeing and Hearing God with the Psalms: The Prophetic Liturgy of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, JSOT Suppl. Series 118, 311.
Erich Zenger, Ein Gott der Rache? Feindpsalmen verstehen, Freiburg/B., Herder 1994.

On Midrash:
Gerald Bruns, "Midrash and Allegory" in Robert Alter & Frank Kernode, eds. The Literary Guide to the Bible, Collins, 1987.
Geoffrey Hartman and Sanford Budick, ed. Midrash and Literature, Yale University Press, 1986.
Barry Holtz, ed. Back to the Sources, Summit Books, 1984, (chapter on Midrash).
Jacob Neusner, Invitation to Midrash, Harper and Row, 1989.