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| Foreword: The Book of Pslams and Its Interpreters | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Translator's Preface | |
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| Author's Preface to the English Edition | |
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| The Psalms and the Cult | |
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| The problem | |
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| Testimonies about the cultic use of the psalms | |
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| Allusions to the temple cult in the psalms - song, music and dance | |
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| The cultic origin of psalmody as such, and the problem of the extant psalms | |
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| What is 'cult'? | |
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| The Method of the Cultic Interpretation | |
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| The form critical (form historical) view-point | |
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| The cult functional view-point | |
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| The sources for our knowledge of Israelite cult life | |
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| Preliminary classification of the psalms | |
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| Psalms outside the Psalter | |
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| Ancient oriental psalm poetry | |
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| 'I' and 'We' in the Psalms - 'Royal Psalms' | |
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| 'I' and 'we'. 'Corporate personality' | |
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| What are 'royal psalms'? | |
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| The ancient Israelite conception of the king | |
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| The place of the royal psalms in the cult | |
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| Royal and national psalms | |
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| National psalms in the 'I' form as royal psalms | |
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| 'Democratization' of religion | |
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| The Hymn of Praise | |
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| Form and content, composition | |
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| Varieties of the hymn | |
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| The hymns and the annual festivals | |
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| Hymnic elements in other psalm types | |
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| The delineation of God in hymn and psalm | |
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| Psalms at the Enthronement Festival of Yahweh | |
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| The meaning of 'enthronement psalms' | |
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| The poetical situation (imagery): the enthronement of Yahweh | |
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| The cultic situation: the interpretation of the enthronement psalms | |
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| Enthronement psalms: the age of the literary type and of the corresponding festival | |
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| The enthronement festival | |
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| The pre-Israelite background and prototypes of the festival | |
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| The specifically Israelite character of the festival | |
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| The festal myths | |
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| Some of the main acts and rites of the festival | |
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| Form and content of the true enthronement psalms against the background of the experiences of the festival | |
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| The emotions and mood of the festival | |
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| The retrospective and prospective elements in the festival and its psalms | |
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| The relationship of the festival to the Jewish hope of restoration and the eschatology | |
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| National Psalms of Lamentation | |
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| Days and rites of penitence | |
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| Psalms for such days of penitence and prayer | |
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| Form and content of the psalm of lamentation | |
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| Protective psalms; 'psalms of confidence' | |
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| Psalms for the annual days of penitence and prayer; petitions for the nation's return | |
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| Psalms of general petition | |
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| Intercessory psalms | |
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| National Psalms of Lamentation in the I-form | |
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| The king ('I') as the people's representative in the properly national psalms of lamentation | |
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| Royal psalms of lamentation and petitions on the occasion of public disaster or danger | |
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| The lament over wicked tongues and false accusers | |
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| Style, form, and content | |
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| Need or danger envisaged as a dwelling in the realm of the dead, a concept common to psalms of both lamentation and thanksgiving | |
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| Real suffering or cultic 'mock sufering'? | |
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| Analogies with Babylonian 'I' psalms | |
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| Personal (Private) Psalms of Lamentation | |
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| Are there such psalms? | |
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| Psalms of sickness. The conception of sickness in Israel | |
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| Ritual remedies for sickness and uncleanness | |
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| Ritual psalms of sickness; enemies and 'awen | |
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| Possible other psalms of sickness | |
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| Psalms of sickness for the king's use | |
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| Content, form, and style | |
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| The psalmists' conception of sin | |
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| Sickness as an image of need and danger or as a secondary suffering | |
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| Possible other occasions for personal psalms of lamentation | |
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| I-psalms of lamentation (and psalms of thanksgiving), their relationship to the cult | |
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| Public Thanksgiving Psalms | |
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| The Victory Song | |
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| The festival of thanksgiving and the occasional psalm of thanksgiving | |
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| Public psalms of thanksgiving in the I-form | |
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| Royal psalms of thanksgiving | |
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| General psalms of thanksgiving of the community at the regular festivals | |
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| Personal (Private) Thanksgiving Psalms | |
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| Festivals of thanksgiving and psalms of thanksgiving; the occasions | |
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| Content and form | |
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| Communal thank-offering festivals | |
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| The individually experienced and felt | |
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| Psalms of Blessing and Cursing | |
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| The blessing and the cursing word in the cult | |
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| The blessing word in the psalms | |
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| The cursing word in the psalms | |
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| Two-way blessing and cursing formulae | |
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| The Prophetic Word in the Psalms and the Prophetic Psalms | |
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| The cult oracle and the temple prophets | |
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| Oracular promises in conjunction with psalms of lamentation | |
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| Royal oracles | |
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| Oracles at the annual festivals | |
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| Why mere promises? | |
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| The condition for the promises: obedience to Yahweh's command | |
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| Religious and moral conditions and the 'decalogical tradition' | |
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| Mixed Style and Liturgical Compositions | |
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| Varying 'types' in one and the same psalm an expression of the religious life in the cult | |
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| Cultic liturgies | |
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| Disintegration of style and mixture of styles | |
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| Psalm Singing and Psalm Singers | |
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| The guilds of singers at the temples | |
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| Temple singing | |
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| The Psalmists | |
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| The temple - or private conventicles? | |
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| The psalmists' relationship to the temple in Jerusalem | |
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| The psalmists belonged to the temple singers | |
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| The genuine traditions about the psalmists | |
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| 'David' in the psalm titles | |
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| 'Moses' and 'Solomon' | |
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| The Learned Psalmography | |
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| The wise and the wisdom poetry | |
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| Some non-cultic poetry and song in Israel | |
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| The petition as an expression of the life of piety and its dependence on the traditional forms of cultic poetry | |
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| Psalm composition a pious, inspired task | |
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| Non-cultic psalms in the Psalter | |
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| Post-canonical psalm composition | |
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| The Poems of Ben Sira | |
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| The Psalms of Solomon | |
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| Hodhayoth, the Qumran psalter | |
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| Early Christian psalm composition | |
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| Traditionalism and Personality in the Psalms | |
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| Attachment to tradition and poetic independence | |
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| The poets and the narratory 'I' | |
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| The poet and the 'I' in certain later private thanksgiving psalms | |
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| The Antiquity of Psalmography and the Psalms | |
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| The rhythmical cult word | |
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| The witness of earlier literature to cultic psalm singing and composition | |
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| National temples and psalm composition | |
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| Psalms preserved from the time of the monarchy, or even of David | |
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| Psalms from the days of Judaism | |
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| Psalms from Maccabean times? | |
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| A history of psalmography? | |
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| The Metre of the Psalms | |
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| Sense rhythm and imposed rhythm | |
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| Fundamental problems in Hebrew metrics | |
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| The basic form | |
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| Thought rhyme (parallelismus membrorum) | |
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| Rhythmical and logical units | |
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| Strophes | |
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| Uniform or mixed metres? | |
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| Changes of metre | |
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| Israelite and Oriental Psalmography | |
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| A common oriental psalm style older than Israel | |
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| Comparison with Israelite psalms. Hymns | |
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| Psalms of lamentation and of petition | |
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| Thanksgiving psalms | |
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| Canaanite and Israelite psalmography | |
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| Babylonian and Egyptian models | |
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| The metrical forms | |
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| Earlier Collections. The Compilation of the Psalter | |
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| Testimony to gradual collection | |
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| The various smaller collections | |
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| The completion of the Psalter | |
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| The five-fold division is quite secondary and does not reflect the history of the compilation | |
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| How many psalms in the Psalter? | |
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| When was the Psalter compiled? | |
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| The Purpose of the Psalter | |
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| The collection used as a temple hymnal | |
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| The purpose of the separate earlier lesser collections: the Asaph psalms, the Korah psalms, the second Davidic Psalter, the Elohistic Psalter, the pilgrim songs, the enthronement psalms, Hallel; the first Davidic Psalter; the psalms in the fourth and fifth 'books' | |
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| In what circles was the Psalter compiled? The 'learned' as traditionalists and canonists | |
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| The purpose of the collection | |
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| Consequences of the collection and canonisation of the Psalter. An end to cultic psalmography. Collective interpretation of older individualistic psalms | |
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| Technical Terms in the Psalm Headings | |
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| Expressions indicating type of psalm | |
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| Musical indications | |
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| Information as to the psalms' liturgical purpose and use | |
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| Expressions referring to the accompanying rite | |
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| Expressions of doubtful significance | |
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| Additional Notes I-XL | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| Index of Scripture Passages Treated | |
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| Index of Authors | |