The Psalms: an overview / William P. Brown
Part I. Ancient Near Eastern backgrounds. Mesopotamian parallels to the Psalms / Anna Elise Zernecke
Canaanite backgrounds to the Psalms / Mark S. Smith
Egyptian backgrounds to the Psalms / Bernd U. Schipper
Part II. Language of the Psalms. Poetry of the Psalms / F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp
The Psalms in poetry / Peter S. Hawkins
Language of lament in the Psalms / Carleen Mandolfo
Praise and metonymy in the Psalms / Travis J. Bott
Wisdom language in the Psalms / Diane Jacobson
Part III. Translating Psalms. The Aramaic Psalter / David M. Stec
The Septuagint Psalter / Joachim Schaper
Jerome's Psalters / Scott Goins
Part IV. Composition of the Psalms. The Levites and the editorial composition of the Psalms / Susan E. Gillingham
On the ordering of Psalms as demonstrated by Psalms 136-150 / Yair Zakovitch
Unrolling the Dead Sea Psalms scrolls / Peter W. Flint
Part V. History of interpretation and reception: a sampling. Some aspects of traditional Jewish Psalms interpretation / Alan Cooper
Psalms in the New Testament / Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll
Psalms in the Qurʼan and in the Islamic religious imagination / Walid A. Saleh
Reception of the Psalms: the example of Psalm 91 / Brennan Breed
Part VI. Interpretive approaches. Psalms and the question of genre / William H. Bellinger, Jr.
Psalms of the temple / Richard J. Clifford
Non-temple Psalms: the cultic setting revisited / Erhard S. Gerstenberger
The shape and shaping of the Psalter: Psalms in their literary context / J. Clinton McCann, Jr.
The meta-narrative of the Psalter / Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford
Ancient Near Eastern iconography and the Psalms / Joel M. LeMon
Rhetoric of the Psalms / Robert L. Foster
Poetic attachment: psychology, psycholinguistics, and the Psalms / Brent A. Strawn
Feminist interpretation of the Psalms / Melody D. Knowles
Kingship in the book of Psalms / Norman K. Gottwald
Part VII. Culturally based interpretations. Singing a subversive song: Psalm 137 and "colored Pompey" / Rodney S. Sadler, Jr.
Rising from generation to generation: lament, Hope, consciousness, home, and dream / John J. Ahn
Psalms in Latin America / Edesio Sanchez
Part VIII. Theologies of the Psalms. Jewish theology of the Psalms / Marc Zvi Brettler
Christian theology of the Psalms / Rolf A. Jacobson
Part IX. Anthropologies of the Psalms. On "being human" in the Psalms / Walter Brueggemann
The righteous and the wicked / Jerome F.D. Creach
Part X. Practicing the Psalms. The Psalms in Christian worship / Kimberly Bracken Long
Preaching Psalms / Thomas G. Long
Singing the Psalms / Michael Morgan
Psalms as resources for pastoral care / Carol L. Schnabl Schweitzer
The Psalms: a monastic perspective / Edmée Kingsmill SLG
Ecological use of the Psalms / David Rensberger
Appendix I. "Apocryphal" Psalms in the Psalms scrolls and in texts incorporating Psalms / Peter W. Flint
Appendix II. Contents of the Psalms scrolls and related manuscripts / Peter W. Flint.
