The Message of the Psalter

The Message of the Psalter

by David C. Mitchell
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David Mitchell is a biblical scholar, musicologist, and musical director.

Originally from Scotland, he now lives in Brussels where he is Precentor and Director of Music in Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral.

His writings centre around the mysterious Book of Psalms.

The Message of the Psalter (1997) proposes that the Book of Psalms is redacted to reflect an eschatological timetable similar to Zechariah 9-14.

The Songs of Ascents: Psalms 120-134 in the Worship of the Jerusalem Temple (2015) traces the Songs of Ascents as liturgy from the day of their first performance on 15 Ethanim 959 BC to the last days of the second temple, and provides a reconstruction of their original music, based on the Masoretic cantillation.

Messiah ben Joseph (2016) is the first ever full-length study of the slain messiah of rabbinic Judaism, a figure which first appears in the Pentateuch and in the Psalms.

For more information on Mitchell's work, go to www.

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Format
430 pages, paperback
First published
Aug 22, 2017
Publishers
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform·CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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