Hermann Lichtenberger

Has Psalm 156 Been Found?

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Professor Charlesworth, one of the most eminent scholars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, suggests that in a medieval manuscript from the Cairo Geniza a psalm of David is preserved showing close relations to the extra-Biblical Psalms 151-155; he therefore proposes to label it Ps 156. A translation, aiming to reflect the poetry of the Hebrew psalms, and a commentary are the center of this fine book.”

The Qumran Psalter

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“For more than fifty years, Professor J. H. Charlesworth has studied the Thanksgiving Hymns among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Based on a new critical edition, translation, and commentary he here presents a poetic translation of the Thanksgiving Hymns and the Self-Glorification Hymn. He unites the various manuscripts to a composite text, giving the reader a much fuller text than earlier available. Some sort of a sensation is Professor Charlesworth's discovery of the handle sheet of the Thanksgiving Hymns with the title of the hymn-scroll: 'To the God of Knowledge--Blessings.'”