Additional information

Full Title

Psalms in the Early Modern World

Author(s)

Austern, Linda Phyllis, Assoc Prof

Edition
ISBN

9781409478973, 9781409422822

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Psalms in the Early Modern World is the first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation, and influence of the Psalms in the Atlantic world, 1400-1800. In the age of Reformation, when religious concerns drove political, social, cultural, economic, and scientific discourse, the Bible was the supreme document, and the Psalms were arguably its most important book.The Psalms played a central role in arbitrating the salient debates of the day, including but scarcely limited to the nature of power and the legitimacy of rule